Flashcards: Latin Derivatives

interject  

 

to insert abruptly; to interrupt with

 

The tenacious speaker held forth from his soapbox while the audience interjected insults and obscenities. 

 

Related English words: interjection (act of interjecting; something interjected; a word or short phrase expressing emotion and separated by a comma or commas from the rest of the sentence), interjector, interjectory, interjectional  

 

Latin root words: iacio, iacere, ieci, iactus - to throw; intericio, intericere, interieci, interiectus - throw among or between 

 

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