DISJECT

PRONUNCIATION: (dis-JEKT)

MEANING: verb tr.: To scatter or disperse.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin disjicere (to scatter), from dis- (apart) + -jicere, from jacere (to throw). Earliest documented use: 1581.
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MISJECT - to commit a throwing error

DISK-E.C.T. - shock therapy for a computer hard drive that's become psychotic and does crazy things

DIS JEST - a joke by Rodney Dangerfield, who complained he never got any respect