For years the village had relied on a single well. When it ran dry in the drought of 1908, the community was forced to address questions it had long preferred to defer: how to share scarce water, and at what cost.
As used in the text, what does the word "address" most nearly mean?
- Acheck_circle
deal with seriously
- B
speak formally to a crowd
- C
write a postal label on
- D
direct one's voice toward
Explanation
The community confronts long-deferred questions, so "address" means to deal with, not the speech-making, postal, or directional senses.