hello wordsmiths the word we're featuring in this video is policy which means an official rule or set of rules it's a noun it comes from the Greek word polis which means City as a root it has to do with cities and government I live in Washington DC so when I think of this route I think of the Capitol building itself a government building in the middle of the city where rules or policies are created can you think of words that sound similar to policy that might have that same root polis bear in m
ind that sometimes we drop the s in Palace when making new words I'll give you 10 seconds to list some out cue the music wall [Music] here are three related words I thought of police the people who enforce the law politics or how people make decisions together in a society and Metropolis huge City so you can see how all of those words are related to governments or cities let's use policy in a sentence so you can get a sense of it it's a state policy in Florida that if you encounter a manatee in
the wild you have to give her ten dollars the connotation the feeling of policy is that it's an official rule so something that a business or a government might come up with a restaurant might have a strict policy against bringing in some other restaurants food our policy no outside food or drink oh no this Manatee went into a restaurant with food from another establishment the d stands for dugong which is another kind of sea cow that's all the time we've got for this one tip your server support
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