Dictation. Injunction, precept, command, rule, maxim, direction, utterance.
Ant. Consultation, conference, council; advice, recommendation.
Dictatorial. Imperious, imperative, domineering, arbitrary, absolute, unlimited, authoritative, unrestricted, overbearing.
Ant. Condescending, supplicatory, affable, suppliant, unassuming, persuasive.
Diction. Expression, language, phrase, phraseology, style, verbiage, vocabulary, wording.
Ant. Provincialism, barbarism, solecism.
Dictionary. Lexicon, word-book, glossary, vocabulary.
Didactic. Instructive, perceptive, moral, directive, educative.
Ant. Unsound, misleading, erroneous, uninstructive, pernicious.
Die. Expire, decease, depart; wither, perish, decay, decline, fade; cease, vanish, disappear; sink, faint, fall; subside.