Word List tract pull What is the root

Word List: tract = pull

• What is the root that means pull?

the root tract • What is the root that means pull?

• What is the wordthat identifies a vehicle that pulls a heavy load?

tractor • What is the word that identifies a vehicle that pulls a heavy load?

• What is the word that describes what magnet does when it pulls a magnetic object close to it?

attract • What is the word that describes what magnet does when it pulls a magnetic object close to it?

• What is the word that describes what you are doing when you pull someone’s attention away from what he is working on?

distract • What is the word that describes what you are doing when you pull someone’s attention away from what he is working on?

• What is the word that describes what your legs are in when they are being pulled back in the hope of popping the bones back into the proper place?

traction • What is the word that describes what your legs are in when they are being pulled back in the hope of popping the bones back into the proper place?

• What is the word that describes what you are doing when you pull something out by force?

extract • What is the word that describes what you are doing when you pull something out by force?

• What is the word that describes what you are doing when you pull something out by force and make it longer?

protract • What is the word that describes what you are doing when you pull something out by force and make it longer?

• What is the word that names a statement that people write to take back something that they said or wrote?

retraction • What is the word that names a statement that people write to take back something that they said or wrote?

• What is the word that names a thought that doesn’t seem to be directly related to anything?

abstract • What is the word that names a thought that doesn’t seem to be directly related to anything?

• What is the word that is the opposite of “expand” and means that you pull something inward to make it smaller?

contract • What is the word that is the opposite of “expand” and means that you pull something inward to make it smaller?

abstract • pulled away from direct relation to anything; impersonal as in attitude or views strange art

attract • to pull into something; to pull into oneself

contract • to pull together to make smaller in size or bulk; to pull inward; opposite of “expand”

distract • to pull a person’s attention in another direction

extract • to pull out by force

protract • to pull out; to make something take longer; to prolong

retraction • a statement or promise that is pulled back or taken back

subtract • to pull back some out, therefore having less left over

traction • a pull to the arm or leg muscles to bring a bone back into place when it is dislocated or fractured

tractor • a powerful vehicle that pulls farm machines and hauls heavy loads