Spelling words

I was going over the Payton's spelling words with her tonight. The root for all the words this week is "dict." We go over them once so she can get a feel for them. Then, I start at the top and ask her, "what word means to speak against; to say the opposite?" She sits for a minute, looks at me with a straight face, and says, "applesauce." We may need to work on the words this week.