Truculently

The word truculently means aggressive self-assertive according to Merriam- Webster. I stumbled upon this word while reading ”Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston. In the text it says, ” She saw that Sykes had kicked all of the clothes together again, and now stood in her way truculently, his whole manner hoping, praying, for an argument.” This shows that while Sykes was standing over her he was very aggressive about it. While reading further on in the story you can tell that Sykes does this often to her. After learning this word I now know another word to use instead of writing aggressive.