For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

Now known as Administrative Professionals’ Day, Secretaries’ Day was created in 1952 by Harry F. Klemfuss, a public relations professional who _______ the value and significance of administrative assistants in order to attract more women to the profession.

a. Proscribed 

b. Touted 

c. Refuted 

d. Undermined 

e. Admonished