Sentence:  Not unnaturally, "Auntie" took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a <WSD>furious</WSD> virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Feeling great anger; raging; violent.