interject
in-ter-JEKTverbMeaning to break in with a remark while someone else is talking
Memory hook INTER-JECT: THROW words IN BETWEEN. Mom and Dad are talking about dinner when Pip throws one word in between them: “Pizza!” He interjects.
Grandpa Gus likes to interject a joke in the middle of every story.
In context Professor Edwin was halfway through his long explanation when a student interjected a quick question, and he paused to answer it before going on.
Similar interrupt, cut in, break in, chime in
From Latin intericere, “to throw between”: inter (between) + jacere (to throw).