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inflammatory

Adjective B1 – Intermediate

Causing swelling, redness, or heat in body tissue, or, more generally, likely to provoke anger.

"The doctor prescribed medication to reduce the inflammatory response around the joint."

In everyday speech, "inflammatory" often describes language meant to provoke anger, as in "an inflammatory remark".