argue, insist, say, believe, claim, prove, allege, assert, worry, countered, complain, concede, warn, acknowledge, accuse, theorize, decry, surmise, grapple, feared, cite, bemoan, compete, speculated, conclude, convinced, suggest, grumble, disagree, presume, deem, posit, confound, admit, agree, liken, scoff, fret, defend, sympathize, battling, deny, reckon, overlook, endure, riddled, confront, seem, hamstrung, miscalculate, think, vie, opine, chafe, concur, threaten, covet, equate, negate, burdened, feuded, lumped, infer, saddled, predicted, attribute, resent, blamed, hope, deride, rankled, ignore, wrestle, envision, fend, thrive, prevail, assume, displace, oppose, boast, groused, know, leapfrog, beware, foresee, carped, ascribe, steamroll, mislabel, dealing, challenged, cope, stymie, misperceive, maintained, assailed, collude, concerned, suffer, doubted, unconvinced, attempt, constantine, croaking, excuse, groping, maximilian, plaint, pretence, pretense, pretexts, protestation, protestations, remonstrance, semblance, supplications, try, wills, *, abel, abilities

altercate, argufy, bicker, brabble, catch, catch up with, cope with, cut, dispute, encounter, equal, fight, go for, hack, hit, keep up, lead, lose, match, meet, niggle, overtake, pettifog, play, quarrel, quibble, race, rack up, rival, rub along, run, run off, score, scrape along, scrape by, scratch along, spar, squabble, squeak by, squeeze by, stickle, struggle, take on, tally, touch, try for, win

battle, combat, encounter, meet, play, take on

act, converse, differ, discourse, move, take issue

contest, deal, debate, fence, get by, make do, make out, manage, postulate, repugn