Greek and Latin Roots, Grades 6–8: Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: ject

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  1. conjecture
    believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
  2. deject
    cause to feel dispirited, sad, or downhearted
  3. dejected
    affected or marked by low spirits
  4. eject
    put out or expel from a place
  5. ejection
    the act of expelling or projecting
  6. ejector
    a person who ousts or supplants someone else
  7. injection
    the forceful insertion of a substance under pressure
  8. interject
    speak abruptly, especially as an interruption
  9. interjection
    an abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion
  10. project
    a planned undertaking
  11. projectile
    a weapon that is forcibly propelled toward a target
  12. projector
    an optical device for projecting a beam of light
  13. reject
    refuse to accept or acknowledge
  14. rejection
    the act of turning something down
  15. trajectory
    the path followed by an object moving through space
Created on Thu May 02 23:44:57 EDT 2024 (updated Fri Jul 26 16:12:25 EDT 2024)

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