Root of the Week: "ject"

- Study vocabulary cards ALL WEEK
- Friday = TEST & the practice sheet DUE

The root is ject. This root comes from the Latin, jacere, meaning to throw. Here are your ten words for the week:

1. dejected adj. – Feeling sad; feeling thrown down “in the dumps”.

2. eject v. – to throw out, as a player from a game or a pilot from a burning fighter jet.

3. injection n., inject v. – a shot of medicine given via syringe and needle by a doctor or nurse; to “throw something in”, such as injecting fuel into an engine.

4. interjection n. - a word thrown into the middle of a conversation or a thought train.

5. jettison v. – to throw cargo or fuel overboard from a boat or plane to lighten it so it will not sink as fast.

6. projectile n. – an object thrown into the air with great force, such as a bullet or a rocket.

7. projector n. – a machine that throws an image onto a wall or screen.

8. reject v. – to throw out a defective object; to deny an argument.

9. subject v. – to throw oneself under the rule of another.

10. trajectory n. – the curved path of an object thrown into the air.

As always, we are interested in any ject words you can think of, too! How about conjecture? Or maybe abject? Worry about the ten words above first.