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How to spell reject
What it means: To refuse to accept something.
In a sentence: The cat might reject the new food if it smells funny.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as rejekt or reeject.
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.
Patterns it uses: Prefixes keep every letter
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