Friday, August 29, 2008

#929, Key to questions 9281 to 9290, Words ending in 'diction'

There are twelve words which end in 'diction'. If we remove the compound word 'noncontradiction' and the base word 'diction', ten words remain.

Here are the answers to the small test based on these ten words.

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Yr. answers need not tally with this key. You are absolutely free to enjoy your choice of words.

CHOICE BOX
WORDS ENDING IN 'diction'
addiction
benediction
contradiction
indiction
interdiction
jurisdiction
malediction
prediction
retrodiction
valediction


9281. Some historians have the ability of changing their perceptions of the past on the basis of present measurements. This capability is retrodiction.


9282. Is oral sex a malediction?


9283. Have you read John Donne's poem 'Valediction forbidding mourning'?


9284. Prolonged dependency on Xanax can lead to a chronic compulsiveness. Xanax addiction is treatable.


9285. Bible contradictions need careful reviews.


9286. Indiction, the fifteen year chronological fiscal cycle used by Romans is not current now.


9287. Pray the rosary and go into the benediction prayers.


9288. Astrological sports predictions rarely fructify.


9289. The Federal Court of Australia started exercising its jurisdiction from 1977.


9290. The National Highway Safety and Transportation Board is implementing a K-9 drug interdiction program in Wisconsin.

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