I have now dedicated quite enough time to ‘saying’ things about the root words dict and dic. But go ahead and thumb through your dictionary and see how many more words it indicates have this useful root!

1. dictionary: tells how to ‘say’ words

2. addict: ‘speaks’ heavily towards something

3. predict: ‘say’ beforehand

4. contradict: ‘say’ against

5. valedictorian: one who ‘says’ farewell

6. dictate: ‘say’ words to another

7. dedicate: to ‘say’ for another

8. verdict: ‘speaking’ of the truth

9. vindicate: ‘say’ to be free from something

10. indicate: ‘say’ to make known

11. dictator: ‘sayer’ of rules

12. predicament: result when one ‘speaks’ too quickly, or before she should

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