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

Bateful :: Bateful (a.) Exciting contention; contentious.

Ruffle :: Ruffle (v. i.) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger..

Decertation :: Decertation (n.) Contest for mastery; contention; strife.

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

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..

Brunt :: Brunt (v. t.) The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle..

Debatefully :: Debatefully (adv.) With contention.

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

Quarrelsome :: Quarrelsome (a.) Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.

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

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..

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

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

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

Litigious :: Litigious (a.) Subject to contention; disputable; controvertible; debatable; doubtful; precarious.

Brawl :: Brawl (n.) A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl..

Altercation :: Altercation (n.) Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.

Bicker :: Bicker (n.) A wrangle; also, a noise,, as in angry contention..

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.

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