Directions: The following question has a sentence or a paragraph with one italicized and underlined word that does not make sense. Choose the most appropriate replacement for that word from the options given below the sentence/ paragraph.

The onus for validating a claim lies prima facie on the shoulders of the one who makes it. And so it is with marking the words or actions of others. Jugums are sometimes so stigmatizing that making them effectively forecloses all possibility of rational discourse.