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Contention :: Contention (n.) Vehemence of endeavor; eagerness; ardor; zeal.

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

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

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..

Brigue :: Brigue (n.) A cabal, intrigue, faction, contention, strife, or quarrel..

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

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

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

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

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

Contention :: Contention (n.) A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion or strife; a position taken or contended for..

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

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

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.

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

Colluctation :: Colluctation (n.) A struggling; a 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..

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..

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

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

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