contentious
adjectiveLikely to cause disagreement, or inclined to argue.
Likely to provoke disagreement
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Likely to cause disagreement, or inclined to argue.
Likely to provoke disagreement
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An event or condition that might occur and may require a response.
Dependent on a condition being met.
To say the opposite of a statement or to be inconsistent with it.
Expressing or involving claims that oppose one another and cannot both hold in the same sense.
Artificial or forced rather than natural.
To come together for a meeting.
Following established practices or commonly accepted ideas.
The beliefs or judgments that are widely accepted about a subject.
To move toward or meet at a common point.
To exchange thoughts or information through conversation.
A firmly held belief.
To twist or coil together; figuratively, to make tangled or complicated.
Twist or coil together
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Complicated and difficult to follow.
Complicated and hard to follow
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Warm, polite, and friendly.
Warmly polite
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A conclusion or result that follows naturally or logically from something else.
A relationship in which two things vary together, without by itself establishing that one causes the other.
To strengthen a statement or finding with additional supporting evidence.
Add supporting evidence
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Dishonest or willing to misuse a position for improper gain.
Dishonest or unprincipled
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An accusation made in response to another accusation.
To act against an influence in order to reduce or cancel its effect.
An accusation made in response to another accusation.
Made to imitate something genuine with the intention of deceiving.
Imitating the genuine
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Contrary to what intuition or ordinary expectation suggests.
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