logomachy
101combat — v 1. fight, contend, clash, conflict with, strive; encounter, engage, meet, join, face; battle, give or do battle, duel, joust, tussle, skirmish, scuffle, jostle; war, make war, war against, go to war, go to battle, wage war, take the field, take …
102commerce — n 1. trade, traffic, buying and selling, barter, truck; dealing, transaction, exchange, interchange, reciprocity; business, marketing, merchandising, mercantilism, commercialism; bargaining, negotiating. 2. social relations, conversance,… …
103contention — n 1. struggle, conflict, strife, hostilities, combat, war; fight, clash, skirmish, battle, fray, affray, fracas, melee, brawl, barroom brawl, scuffle, tussle; set to, scrap, fisticuffs, slugfest. 2. rivalry, competition; contest, game, meet. See… …
104controversy — n 1. dispute, disagreement, altercation, war of words, contestation, verbal feud, difference of opinion, heated exchange, logomachy; debate, discussion, polemics, argumentation, disputation, pil pul; fine point, question at hand, moot point,… …
105debate — n 1. discussion, dispute, disputation, argumentation, polemic, logomachy, war of words; verbal controversy, altercation, wrangle, heated argument, disagreement, dissension, variance, difference of opinion. 2. deliberation, consideration, careful… …
106difference — n 1. dissimilarity, unlikeness, dissimilitude, contrast, confliction; contrariety, opposition, antithesis, contradiction, contradistinction; inconsistency, discrepancy, inconformity, nonconformity; disparity, inequality, imparity, imbalance,… …
107disagreement — n 1. difference of opinion, disaccord, lack of agreement, discord, misunderstanding; parting of the ways, break up, divergence, deviation. 2. conflict, opposition, contradiction, contrariety, strife; dissimilarity, dissimilitude, unlikeness,… …
108discussion — n 1. debate, dispute, disagreement, contention, dissension, variance, difference of opinion; disputation, argumentation, polemic, logomachy, war of words; verbal controversy, altercation, wrangle, heated argument, Sl. hassle. 2. conference,… …
109polemic — n 1. debate, dispute, argument, controversy, altercation, verbal engagement, war of words, logomachy, pilpul. 2. debater, polemist. See polemist. adj 3. controversial, polemical, argumentative, argumental, dialectic, logomachic, eristic,… …
110quarrel — n 1. dispute, discord, wrangle, wrangling, bickering, Sl. beef, controversy; contradiction, dissension, variance, difference of opinion; debate, discussion, polemic, logomachy, war of words; contestation, litigation, disputation, argumentation,… …
