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tumultuous ~ tumulus

[different pronunciation]

“Tumultuous” (adjective) means ‘(of a period of time) full of change, noisy activity, confusion and/or violence; (of some activity) very loud because people are crazy with excitement, happy or full of strong feeling’,

e.g.

The foreign fans gave him a tumultuous welcome when the pop singer was on his world tour.

The years between 1946 and ‘48 was a tumultuous period for the people of free India.

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“Tumulus” (noun, with plural form ‘tumuli’) is ‘a very large pile (mound) of earth (soil) put over a grave of an important person by the people in ancient times’ (‘tumulus’ is also called barrows, burial mounds or kurgans); and ‘some of the tumuli can be the uplift of lava’,

e.g.

The medieval graves did not have any tumuli, instead they were covered with stone or slab.

A tumulus composed of stone, completely or partly, is called cairn.

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