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Read the following excerpt from “The Contest” by Arthur Conan Doyle:

The whole chorus was in full blast, the hummers humming, the shouters bellowing, the tappers hard at work upon the benches, while every now and then came a musical cyclone of "Incomparable! Divine!" from the trained phalanx who intoned their applause, their united voices sweeping over the tumult as the drone of the wind dominates the roar of the sea.

Based on the context of the passage, which definition most clearly fits the word tumult?

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The term tumult in the passage refers to the loud noise caused by a large mass of people. Because its created by a large mass of people, it is loud and sometimes confusing. The tumult in the passage is caused by the roar of the sea and the drone of the wind.
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