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Vie :: Vie (n.) A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager..

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

Victor :: Victor (n.) The winner in a contest; one who gets the better of another in any struggle; esp., one who defeats an enemy in battle; a vanquisher; a conqueror; -- often followed by art, rarely by of..

Contest :: Contest (v. t.) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert..

War :: War (n.) A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities..

Field :: Field (n.) A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting..

Warm :: Warm (superl.) Violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate; as, a warm contest; a warm debate..

Decisive :: Decisive (a.) Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.

Agon :: Agon (n.) A contest for a prize at the public games.

Run :: Run (a.) To contend in a race; hence, to enter into a contest; to become a candidate; as, to run for Congress..

Wage :: Wage (v. t.) To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar..

Agonistics :: Agonistics (n.) The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games..

Luctation :: Luctation (n.) Effort to overcome in contest; struggle; endeavor.

Mart :: Mart (n.) Battle; contest.

Vexed :: Vexed (a.) Much debated or contested; causing discussion; as, a vexed question..

Truce :: Truce (n.) Hence, intermission of action, pain, or contest; temporary cessation; short quiet..

Lose :: Lose (v. i.) To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest..

Uncontestable :: Uncontestable (a.) Incontestable.

Agony :: Agony (n.) Violent contest or striving.

Contested :: Contested (imp. & p. p.) of Contes.

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