How to spell reject

Reject is spelled R-E-J-E-C-T.

hear itre·ject/rةھ'dت’ة›kt/verbHidden vowels

What it means: To refuse to accept something.

In a sentence: The cat might reject the new food if it smells funny.

Same family: rejection, rejected, rejecting, project, eject. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Reject” comes from Latin *reicere* (later *rejicere*), meaning “to throw back.” It combines *re-* (“back, again”) and *iacere* (“to throw”), so the original idea was literally to “throw something back” instead of accepting it.

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