contended, claiming, asserting, insisting, saying, disputing, objecting, suggesting, complaining, believing, advocating, disagreed, countered, debating, allege, stating, criticizing, pleading, deriding, protested, noting, questioned, stressing, rejecting, opining, convinced, explaining, quarreling, implying, reasoned, lobbied, denying, fearing, challenged, testifying, opposing, telling, justifying, decrying, declaring, ruled, asking, railed, emphasizing, deeming, acknowledging, theorized, petitioning, carping, defended, urging, warned, unpersuaded, agued, ranting, disparaged, griping, demanded, concluding, favoring, concedes, tu quoque, unconvinced, proposing, pushing, denouncing, dismissing, assailing, prove, quibbling, specious argument, fighting, stipulating, misadvised, pointing, appealed, squabbled, retorted, groused, insinuating, presuming, thinks, grumbled, sparred, inferring, doubted, intervening, espousing, speculated, livid, posited, penalizing, discussing, moaning, impugning, talking, appeals court, lamenting, reminding, accusing, overturning, charging, bickering, wrangling, quarrelling, disputation, contention, squabbling, haggling, negotiating, skirmishing, battering, wrangle, altercations, nagging, recrimination, disputations, fretting, praying

polemic, sparring

advocacy, artillery, disagreement, hotly, incontrovertibility, incontrovertibleness, submission, weapon

conflict, difference, difference of opinion, dispute

argument, argumentative, contention, contestation, controversy, quarrelsome, tilt