Directions: The following question contains a sentence with one blank only. Below are given four words as answer choices. You have to choose an option with choices that can make the sentence complete

Nuclear powers India and Pakistan have fought two wars over Kashmir and came to the _______ of a third earlier this year after a suicide attack by a Pakistan-based militant group killed at least 40 paramilitary police in Pulwama.

A. brink
B. verge
C. materialization
D. transpiration