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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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