volcanic

CEFRB2

/vɒlˈkænɪk/

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies.
Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes.
Reminiscent of a volcano; explosive, violent, full of suppressed anger, energy etc.

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Jo rose indignified, Vanessa following in her volcanic wake.
1980 August 2, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, page 15
Some 200 million years ago, the rocks that became the Palisades cliffs just across the Hudson River from Manhattan formed during volcanic activity that helped rip apart the ancient supercontinent Pangea. That volcanism helped lead to the birth of the Atlantic Ocean while it also contributed to killing off as much as a quarter of all life on Earth during the event known as the end-Triassic mass extinction.
2022 February 3, Lucas Joel, “Dissolving in Toxic Oceans: How an Ancient Extinction Happened”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2022
With that the system was complete, and ready to have its disastrous effect on Martin Luther's volcanic temper.
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 556

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From French volcanique, from volcan (“volcano”); and/or directly from volcan(o) + -ic.