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why rarest could not come?

Question:
DIRECTIONS: The following questions consist of a single sentence with one blank only. You are given five words as answer choices and from the five choices, you have to pick out the correct word to serve as the answer in order to make the sentence meaningfully complete
According to one study, after prostate cancer, lung cancer is the next ________ cancer in men.
Options:
A) rarest
B) purest
C) commonest
D) driest
E) most
Solution:
Ans: (c) commonest

There are several types of cancer of which only two are mentioned here: prostate cancer and lung cancer The sentence means that more people suffer from prostate cancer than from lung cancer The appropriate word is  “commonest” The three degrees of comparison are: common, commoner, commonest. All the words listed above are adjectives placed before a noun to qualify it. Other words aren’t meaningful  before the noun.

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