Root Word "Ject"

When the basketball player got his sixth foul he was thrown out of the game. He was ...

• dejected from the game

• ejected from the game

• jettisoned from the game

The root word "ject" means ...

• jump

• kick

• throw

To throw oneself under someone else's rule

• subject

• projectile

• interjection

A machine that throws an image onto a wall

• projectile

• projector

• interjection

I used a slingshot to throw a rock into the air. The rock was a/an ...

• injection

• projector

• projectile

The curved path of the paper airplane when it is thrown into the air

• trajectory

• jettison

• interjection

Miles threw out the rotten tomato.

• He dejected the tomato.

• He injected the tomato.

• He rejected the tomato.

Kevin was sad and felt thrown down in spirit when he did not make the football team.

• Kevin felt ejected.

• Kevin felt dejected.

• Kevin felt projected.

Every year my doctor tells me to "throw" medicine in my body and get a flu shot.

• A flu shot is a rejection.

• A flu shot is an injection.

• A flu shot is an ejection.

The captain told us to throw our luggage overboard to lighten the boat's load.

• projectile

• interjection

• jettison