Choose the word that best fills the gap: The doctor advised him to ___ from eating too much sugar.
Astop
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Crefuse
Davoid
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Why the answer is B, and why the others tempt you.
Only 'abstain' is followed by 'from' in this way: to abstain from something means to keep yourself from doing it.
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