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Public Values People General Adjective Means Community H

Word public
QType H
Instructions In this sentence, public means:
Sentence One country values education, the public good, a civil society, and is willing to support those values accordingly.
Source New York Times
Source URL https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/upshot/new-geography-of-prisons.html
Source Title This small Indiana county sends more people to prison than San Francisco and Durham, N.C., combined. Why?
Choices general | wonderful | visible | effortful
Correct Answer general
Definition In this question, public is an adjective that means affecting the people or community as a whole.
Blurb

Something that affects the entire community — whether it's your town, your country, or the world — is public. Climate change, for example, is a public concern, as is finding a clean public bathroom.

You can use the word public as a noun, when you're talking about a large group of people. You might say that the public is getting tired of the inefficient bus system in your city, or that the new library branch is open to the public. The adjective public is good for discussing things that concern everyone. The Latin root word, publicus, means "of the people, of the state, common, or ordinary."

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