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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| dejected | to feel sad; to feel thrown down in spirit |
| eject | to throw out |
| injection | a shot; the "throwing" of medicine into the body by a needle |
| interjection | a word thrown into a sentence of conversation |
| jettison | to throw goods overboard to lighten the load on a boat or an airplane |
| projectile | an object thrown into the air with great force |
| projector | a machine that throws an image onto a wall |
| reject | to throw something out because it's defective and can't be used again |
| subject | to throw oneself under someone else's rule |
| trajectory | the curved path of an object thrown into space |
| bisect | to cut into two pieces |
| dissect | to cut apart for the purpose of investigation |
| insect | a class of small arthropod animals that has three separate sections to their bodies: head, thorax, abdomen |
| intersection | the point at which two lines or roads meet and cut across each other |
| section | a separate part of something |
| sectional | a couch that is made up of separate pieces |
| sector | a separate part of a society, group, or area |
| transect | to cut across something |
| trisect | to cut into three separate pieces |
| vivisection | surgery on living animals; medical research that involves cutting into living animals to study organs, tissues, or diseases |