Question: Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option that follows:
Whenever she asked the doctor how long she had left to live, he would dive off into long-winded explanations about the incertainties inherent in medicines, and eventually tail off as if he had forgotten her original question altogether; it was the worst form of _______ she’d ever come across.
The doctor dodged the patient's question and hence “prevarication” meaning 'avoidance; moving away from the whole truth', fits in the sentence.