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Respondent :: Respondent (n.) One who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province it is to refute objections, or overthrow arguments; -- distinguished from opponent..

Opponent :: Opponent (n.) One who opposes in a disputation, argument, or other verbal controversy; specifically, one who attacks some theirs or proposition, in distinction from the respondent, or defendant, who maintains it..

Finesse :: Finesse (v. i.) To attempt, when second or third player, to make a lower card answer the purpose of a higher, when an intermediate card is out, risking the chance of its being held by the opponent yet to play..

Croquet :: Croquet (v. t.) In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet..

Opponent :: Opponent (n.) One who opposes; an adversary; an antagonist; a foe.

Opponent :: Opponent (a.) Situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic..

Permiss :: Permiss (n.) A permitted choice; a rhetorical figure in which a thing is committed to the decision of one's opponent.

Mystify :: Mystify (v. t.) To perplex the mind of; to puzzle; to impose upon the credulity of ; as, to mystify an opponent..

Withstander :: Withstander (n.) One who withstands, or opposes; an opponent; a resisting power..

Antagonist :: Antagonist (n.) One who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent..

Slam :: Slam (v. t.) To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.

Interponent :: Interponent (n.) One who, or that which, interposes; an interloper, an opponent..

Touchback :: Touchback (n.) The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown.

Encounterer :: Encounterer (n.) One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist.

Floor :: Floor (v. t.) To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent..

Contestant :: Contestant (n.) One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.

Antichrist :: Antichrist (n.) A denier or opponent of Christ. Specif.: A great antagonist, person or power, expected to precede Christ's second coming..

Wrestle :: Wrestle (v. t.) To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully..

Skunk :: Skunk (v. t.) In games of chance and skill: To defeat (an opponent) (as in cards) so that he fails to gain a point, or (in checkers) to get a king..

Papacy :: Papacy (n.) The Roman Catholic religion; -- commonly used by the opponents of the Roman Catholics in disparagement or in an opprobrious sense.

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