extract

to draw or pull out

Roots

e- / ex-: out, out of, away, or forth
tract / trah: draw, pull, handle, or manage

Other words with the tract / trah root

abstract: existing as an idea rather than a concrete thing
attract: to draw toward
detract: to take away from value or attention
distract: to draw attention away
intractable: very hard to manage, solve, or control
protract: to lengthen or draw out
retract: to draw back or take back

Extract is tract moving outward: pull something out.

She extracted the main idea from the dense paragraph.

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