Question

Prevalent is to rare as surplus is to_______
A. shortage
B. excess
C. amount
D. common

Answer 1

any ideas?

Answer 2

Prevalent means wide-spread or common.

Answer 3

So what do you think?

Answer 4

B

Answer 5

correct?

Answer 6

No, excess means you have too much of something.

Answer 7

What's the relationship between "common" and "rare"?

Answer 8

Common it more frequent and rare is less frequent

Answer 9

its excess like igreen said

Answer 10

They're opposites..so what's the opposite of surplus(it means the same thing as excess)?

Answer 11

So we're looking for a synonym of "rare"

Answer 12

uncommon?