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Broil :: Broil (n.) A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention; discord, either between individuals or in the state..

Contentious :: Contentious (a.) Relating to contention or strife; involving or characterized by contention.

Strive :: Strive (v. i.) To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth..

Word :: Word (n.) Verbal contention; dispute.

Bickerment :: Bickerment (n.) Contention.

Feud :: Feud (n.) A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed..

Tiff :: Tiff (n.) A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or contention. See Tift.

Outcast :: Outcast (n.) A quarrel; a contention.

Makebate :: Makebate (n.) One who excites contentions and quarrels.

Struggler :: Struggle (n.) Contest; contention; strife.

Contest :: Contest (v. i.) To engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; -- followed usually by with..

Strife :: Strife (n.) Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts..

Embroil :: Embroil (v. t.) To throw into confusion or commotion by contention or discord; to entangle in a broil or quarrel; to make confused; to distract; to involve in difficulties by dissension or strife.

Polemy :: Polemy (n.) Warfare; war; hence, contention; opposition..

Contest :: Contest (v. t.) To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute..

Strived :: Strive (n.) Strife; contention.

Dissension :: Dissension (n.) Disagreement in opinion, usually of a violent character, producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; partisan and contentious divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel..

Strife :: Strife (n.) Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle.

Emulation :: Emulation (n.) Jea/ous rivalry; envy; envious contention.

Concertation :: Concertation (n.) Strife; contention.

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