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

Debatefully :: Debatefully (adv.) With contention.

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

Logomachy :: Logomachy (n.) Contention in words merely, or a contention about words; a war of words..

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

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

Bickerment :: Bickerment (n.) Contention.

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

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

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

Firebrand :: Firebrand (n.) One who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary..

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

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

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

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.

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..

Contention :: Contention (n.) A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife..

Bellicose :: Bellicose (a.) Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious.

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..

Snarl :: Snarl (n.) The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.

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