Using the context of this passage, what is the most accurate

Last updated: 7/8/2022

Using the context of this passage, what is the most accurate definition of "miasma"? A. an uplifting aura B. an oppressive or unpleasant atmosphere C. an all-encompassing desire D. a weak, but persistent nagging "Freedom from Fear" by Aung San Suu Kyi It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.