| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A discussion, often heated, in which a difference of opinion is expressed: altercation, argument, bicker, clash, contention, controversy, debate, difficulty, disagreement, dispute, fight, quarrel, run-in, spat, squabble, tiff, word (used in plural), wrangle. Informal : hassle, rhubarb, tangle. See CONFLICT. | | ADJECTIVE: | Given to arguing: argumentative, combative, contentious, disputatious, eristic, litigious, polemical, quarrelsome, scrappy. See CONFLICT.
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