Word of the Day

: March 16, 2022

intersperse

verb in-ter-SPERSS

What It Means

Intersperse means "to place or insert something at intervals in or among other things."

// The author has interspersed the guidebook with pictures of the different animals tourists might encounter on the safari.

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intersperse in Context

"There are stately brick buildings here, interspersed with derelict warehouses—forgotten remnants of this area's industrial past." — Jessica Wolfrom, The San Francisco Examiner, 28 Feb. 2022

Did You Know?

Intersperse comes from Latin interspersus, a combination of the prefix inter- ("between or among") and sparsus, the past participle of spargere, meaning "to scatter." Sparsus is also the source of sparse.