Read a passage and then answer the questions based on it. Gandhi was not born great. He was a blundering boy, a mediocre student, a poor lawyer, an ordinary individual until he remade himself. He was a self-remade man. He had faith in himself. But above all, he had a deep, touching faith in the peasants, miners, labourers, and young unformed men and women whom he drew into his work. He fed them all an elixir of growth which often transformed nameless, uneducated people into leonine heroes. The elixir was fearlessness. The word 'leonine' in the passage means

• A

  lean
• Correct answer
  B

  courageous
• C

  timid
• D

  learning

Hence, the correct answer is option: 'B'.