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If I understand your request properly, -dic- is not a prefix but a very popular word part used in words like abdicate but it also has a more common variant -dict-, used in words like diction, dictionaryand the list I've supplied below -dict-'s meaning.

-dic-, -dict- means "speech, speak, talk, say, tell, pronounce, declare, proclaim, word, point out".

[The emboldened words are college level words.]

abdicate benediction contradiction .

contradictory dedication

dictate (GRE) dictum

edict indicant indicator indictinterdict (GRE)

juridical jurisdiction maledictionpredicament predicate predict .

prediction prodigious? prodigy? (not sure about prodigious or prodigy but the word part -dic- may be in there)

valediction valedictorian valedictory(apodictic, condition, dictim, dictionary, dictograph, dight, diseuse, ditto, dixit, epidictic, fatidic, index, indicavit, indicia, indite, indiction, judge, preach, predicable,verdict

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