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Definition of distractor noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

distractor

noun

/dɪˈstræktə(r)/

/dɪˈstræktər/

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a person or thing that takes your attention away from what you should be doing

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one of the wrong answers in a multiple-choice test

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