dict = speak

The annual Horseracing Derby is coming up. Most people expect Solo's Shadow to come in first place. What are they making?

• verdicts

• predictions

• dictations

• edicts

Answer explanation

to say what will happen before it occurs

All United States citizens are required by law to serve on a jury if asked to do so. If this happens to you, you will have to decide on what?

• dictionary

• dictations

• verdict

• diction

Answer explanation

the decision a jury makes in a trial; the decision said by the jury

Some people seem to have an accent. They simply differ in what compared to you? people seem to have

• diction

• dictation

• indictments

• edicts

Answer explanation

the manner in which something is expressed in words (written or spoken)

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CCSS.L.5.5C

Every library has a few of these to help people say words the right way and figure out what they mean.

• dictionaries

• dictums

• predictions

• contradictions

Answer explanation

a reference book in which spoken or written words are defined

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

The usual result of this is spending a certain number of years in jail.

• indictment

• contradiction

• dictation

• edicts

Answer explanation

formal words spoken or written by a jury that charge a person with a crime

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

History tells of many of this type of person who ruled by force so that people had very little control over their own lives.

• dictum

• edict

• dictator

• verdict

Answer explanation

a ruler who speaks and rules with total power

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CCSS.L.5.4A

If an official met with many people around him to announce why a certain law must be followed, what would he be saying?

• dictum

• edict

• dictation

• contradiction

Answer explanation

public words issued by an official that explain a law or command

A secretary records this on a notepad or computer for the boss, so that the boss will remember what he or she said exactly.

• dictation

• edicts

• predictions

• dictums

Answer explanation

what is written down as someone says it

It is not polite to do this to your parents.

• predict

• dictum

• contradict

• indictment

Answer explanation

to speak against; to say the opposite

The judge reads this to the courtroom.

• dictionary

• edict

• prediction

• dictum

Answer explanation

a judge's ruling or statement