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111disagreement — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Act of disagreeing Nouns 1. disagreement, discord, discordance; dissonance, dissidence, discrepancy; unconformity, incongruity, incongruence; discongruity, misalliance; jarring; dissent, dissension,… …
112haggle — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. cavil; bargain, chaffer, dicker. See barter. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To bargain] Syn. deal, wrangle, argue; see buy 1 , sell 1 . 2. [To mangle] Syn. whack, hack, chop; see cut 1 . III (Roget s 3… …
113hassle — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n., slang, quarrel, squabble. See discord. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An argument] Syn. quarrel, squabble, row; see dispute . 2. [A troublesome situation] Syn. bother, nuisance, annoyance; see trouble 2 . v …
114spat — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. quarrel, dispute; slap, smack; gaiter. See discord, impulse, clothing. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. tiff, dispute, scrap, quarrel; see dispute . See Synonym Study at quarrel . v. Syn. punch, thump, slap;… …
115argue — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To endeavor to convince] Syn. plead, appeal, assert, maintain, claim, hold, explain, justify, elucidate, present, show, support, reason with, dispute, contend, oppose, demonstrate, establish, join issue, make a case for, put …
116Contention — (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 …
117wrong — [OE] Etymologically, wrong probably means ‘twisted’. It was borrowed into late Old English from Old Norse *vrangr ‘awry’ (rangr is the recorded form), which was descended from prehistoric Germanic *wrangg (source also of English wrangle [14]). A… …
118wrangler — (n.) person in charge of horses or cattle, herder, 1888, agent noun from WRANGLE (Cf. wrangle) (v.); as a proprietary name for a brand of jeans, copyrighted 1947, claiming use from 1929 …
119brangle — I. n. Squabble, quarrel, wrangle, dispute, jangle, bickering, bandying of words, war of words, branglement. II. v. n. Wrangle, squabble. See bicker …
120brawl — I. v. n. 1. Quarrel (noisily), dispute (angrily), wrangle, brangle, jangle, squabblebicker. 2. Roar, resound. II. n. Quarrel, wrangle, brangle, jangle, squabble, dispute, uproar, broil, altercation, fracas, squabble, fray, feud, tumult,… …
