No one likes to have a tooth forcibly ex tracted, or “pulled” out by a dentist. Perhaps you learned how to sub tract while in elementary school, unless of course you were highly dis tracted by other students, or “pulled” away by them. When you sub tract 3 from 5, you “drag” 3 away from 5, leaving but 2. No farmer wants a tractor that doesn’t work! A malfunctioning tractor de tracts or “drags” from successful farm work being completed. Smoothly working tractors are at tractive farm implements farmers are “dragged” or “pulled” to tractors since they so depend on them to get their heavy work done. The Latin root word tract means “drag” or “pull.”Ī tractor, for instance, “drags” or “pulls” heavy equipment, that is, it is a “dragger” of plows, combines, hay balers and the like.
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