THE FIRST WORD

tractable

PRONUNCIATION:

(TRAK-tuh-buhl) 

MEANING:

adjective: Easily handled, managed, or controlled.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin tractare (to handle), frequentative of trahere (draw). Earliest documented use: 1504.

USAGE:

"'I don't want to go there,' said Sharina, who was normally such a tractable child."
Susan Palwick; Hhasalin; Fantasy & Science Fiction (Cornwall, Connecticut); Sep/Oct 2013.