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Usage

• contumacious

  Someone who is contumacious is purposely stubborn, contrary, or disobedient.

• tumultuous

  A tumultuous event or period of time is filled with great excitement, confusion, or violence; a tumultuous reaction to something is likewise very loud and noisy because people are happy and excited.

• tumescent

  Something that is tumescent, such as bodily tissue, is swelling or becoming swollen.

• contumacy

  willful refusal to appear before a court or comply with a court order

• contumelious

  arrogantly insolent

• contumely

  a rude expression intended to offend or hurt

• tumescence

  tumidity resulting from the presence of blood or other fluid in the tissues

• tumid

  ostentatiously lofty in style

• tumor

  an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose

• tumult

  a state of commotion and noise and confusion