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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..

Incendious :: Incendious (a.) Promoting faction or contention; seditious; inflammatory.

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

Agonism :: Agonism (n.) Contention for a prize; a contest.

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

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..

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..

Chest :: Chest (n.) Strife; contention; controversy.

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

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

Debatable :: Debatable (a.) Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable question..

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

Debateful :: Debateful (a.) Full of contention; contentious; quarrelsome.

Discord :: Discord (v. i.) Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes..

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

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.

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

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

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