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

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

Bickerment :: Bickerment (n.) Contention.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

Contention :: Contention (n.) Strife in words; controversy; altercation; quarrel; dispute; as, a bone of contention..

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

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..

Contest :: Contest (v. i.) To engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; -- followed usually by with..

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