ABDICATE | to renounce formally a throne or high office ( proclaim away ) | |
ADDICT | to give oneself habitually or compulsively to something | |
CONTRADICT | to speak against ; to assert the opposite of what someone has said | |
DICTATE | to speak or read something aloud to be recorded by others / to give orders or commands | |
DICTATOR | one whose speech is to be taken as the final word / one who order others around /a tyrannical ruler | |
DICTATORIAL | speaking in a domineering way | |
DICTION | choice of words in speaking or writing | |
DICTIONAIRY | a book containing the words of language | |
EDICT | an official decree ( a speaking out ) | |
JURISDICTION | the right to interpret and apply the law; legal power to hear and decide cases; | |
PREDICT | to foretell ( to speak beforhand ) | |
VALEDICTORIAN | a student of the highest scholastic standings, who gives the farewell speech | |