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   tractable

   /ˈtraktəbl/

   adjective

   • 1. (of a person) easy to control or influence: "she has always been tractable and obedient, even as a child"
   • ▪ (of a situation or problem) easy to deal with: "trying to make the mathematics tractable"

   Word Origin early 16th century: from Latin tractabilis, from tractare ‘to handle’ (see tractate).

   Derivatives

   • 1. tractability noun
   • 2. tractably adverb
   • 3. tractableness noun

   Scrabble Points: 13

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