Modifies a noun

• applause: His own solo spots were received with tumultuous applause.

• decade: The 1960s are a tumultuous decade to all those who recall them.

• reception: The forces entered the city on 19 August to a tumultuous reception.

• welcome: We marched into the town square to a tumultuous welcome.

• period: It is useful to recall the tumultuous period of the UN Security Council in March last.

• past: To solve the mystery he must delve deep into the city's crooked alleyways, and deeper still into its tumultuous past.

Modifying Another Word

• very: My hearers at night were very tumultuous; yet could do no mischief.

• so: This assembly by the intrusion of strangers became so tumultuous that it grew into disuse.

• pretty: Sienna ended their engagement and later said: " It's been a pretty tumultuous year.