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91Contention — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Contention >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 contention contention strife Sgm: N 1 contest contest contestation Sgm: N 1 struggle struggle Sgm: N 1 belligerency belligerency Sgm: N 1 opposition opposition …
92Fighting and Combat — Have you ever seen one of those old westerns when some grizzled and toothless saloon patron says them s fighting words ? Well, here they are all twenty one of them! These words, all very obscure, refer to fighting, combat or conflict, whether… …
93contention — n. 1. Strife, discord, dissension, wrangling, wrangle, quarrel, squabble, feud, rupture, falling out, high words. 2. Dispute, debate, bickering, altercation, controversy, logomachy, war of words, strife of words …
94controversy — n. 1. Discussion, dispute, disputation, debate, polemics, altercation, logomachy, war of words, strife of words. 2. Lawsuit, suit at law, process in law …
95words — n. pl. 1. Language, accents, tongues, talk, discourse. 2. Dispute, wrangling, bickering, altercation, logomachy, war of words …
96debate — I. n. 1. Disputation, controversy, discussion. 2. Altercation, contest, contention, dispute, logomachy, strife of words, war of words. II. v. a. 1. Discuss, argue, dispute, contest, canvass. 2. Battle for, contest, combat for, contend for,… …
97altercation — n 1. argument, quarrel, dispute, disputation, sparring; bickering, spatting, jangling, jarring; debate, logomachy, disagreement, dissension, discord, fall out; difference, divergence, variance; controversy, war of words. 2. affray, fight, brawl,… …
98argument — n 1. debate, discussion, polemic, logomachy, war of words; contestation, disputation, argumentation. 2. disagreement, contention, altercation, conflict, dispute, controversy, discord, clash, falling out, Inf. hassle, Inf. barney; quarrel, row,… …
99argumentation — n 1. logic, reasoning, chain or course or pattern of reasoning; polemics, dialectics. 2. debate, discussion, polemic, logomachy, war of words; disputation, disagreement, contention, altercation. 3.(all in order to convince or persuade) address,… …
100battle — n 1. clash, struggle, strife, contention, tussle, scuffle; contest, war, bout, Armageddon; skirmish, action, brush; combat, warfare, fighting, hostilities; collision, conflict, meeting, engagement, encounter, rencounter; fight, donnybrook, Scot.… …
