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Definition of
distractor noun
from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
distractor
noun
noun
NAmE
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dɪˈstræktər
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1
a person or thing that takes your attention away from what you should be doing
2
one of the wrong answers in a
multiple-choice
test
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distractor
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