Read the passage below. Which of the following best describes "acute misery"?

"He uncovered the trick about the cabbages, how they were split in two with the spade and immediately covered with earth and then unearthed again and eaten with split-second timing. He found out how tobacco smoke was beaten into the ground, and he found out how conversations were whispered down the wind. For about two weeks Span One lived in acute misery. The cabbages, tobacco and conversations had been the pivot of jail life to them."

A. a feeling of frustration and anger
B. severe, intense negative feelings
C. happy and carefree
D. perceptive and clever plans