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Sanjukta

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Question:
DIRECTIONS: Pick out the most effective words from the given options to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.


The purpose of chemoprevention or preventive therapy is to ______ the ______ of cancer cells.

Options:
A) dilate, development
B) stymie, growth
C) prognosticate, pattern
D) promote, proliferation
E) aid, multiplication
Solution:
Ans: (b) stymie, growth

Stymie means to prevent or hinder the progress of.

As for example "the changes must not be allowed to stymie new medical treatments"

Synonyms: impede, interfere with, hamper, hinder, obstruct, inhibit, , thwart, foil, stall, shackle, fetter…

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