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makes a big thing about synonyms

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  • bandy
  • battle
  • bicker
  • break with
  • buck
  • bump heads
  • contend
  • cross
  • cross swords
  • disagree
  • dispute
  • face down
  • face off
  • feud
  • gang up on
  • get in one's face
  • go one on one
  • hammer
  • hammer away
  • hash
  • hash over
  • hassle
  • have at each other
  • have at it
  • altercate
  • argufy
  • avoid
  • bicker
  • blow hot and cold
  • carp
  • catch at straws
  • cavil
  • chicane
  • criticize
  • dispute
  • equivocate
  • evade
  • fence
  • flip-flop
  • hassle
  • have at it
  • hem and haw
  • hypercriticize
  • make a big thing about
  • nit-pick
  • paralogize
  • pettifog
  • pretend
  • annoy
  • argue
  • badger
  • bedevil
  • beleaguer
  • bicker
  • dispute
  • dun
  • harry
  • hound
  • pester
  • plague
  • quibble
  • squabble
  • worry
  • wrangle
  • abstain
  • avert
  • bypass
  • circumlocute
  • circumvent
  • deflect
  • desist
  • ditch
  • divert
  • dodge
  • duck
  • elude
  • escape
  • eschew
  • evade
  • fake out
  • fend off
  • flee
  • give the slip
  • hide
  • hold off
  • jump
  • keep clear
  • lay low
  • altercate
  • brawl
  • caterwaul
  • cause a scene
  • cavil
  • dig
  • disagree
  • dispute
  • fall out
  • fight
  • hassle
  • pick at
  • quarrel
  • quibble
  • row
  • scrap
  • scrape
  • spar
  • spat
  • squabble
  • tiff
  • trade zingers
  • wrangle
  • be on the fence
  • change one's mind
  • chop and change
  • flip-flop
  • fluctuate
  • vacillate
  • will and will not
  • wobble about
  • bother
  • cavil
  • censure
  • complain
  • criticize
  • find fault
  • fuss
  • grumble
  • hypercriticize
  • knock
  • nitpick
  • objurgate
  • pan
  • peck
  • pick at
  • quibble
  • reproach
  • altercate
  • argue over
  • argufy
  • avoid
  • bicker
  • blow hot and cold
  • carp
  • cavil
  • chicane
  • criticize
  • dispute
  • equivocate
  • evade
  • fence
  • flip-flop
  • hassle
  • have at it
  • hem and haw
  • hypercriticize
  • make a big thing about
  • nit-pick
  • paralogize
  • pettifog
  • pretend
  • artifice
  • cheating
  • deviousness
  • dishonesty
  • dodge
  • double-crossing
  • double-dealing
  • duplicity
  • feint
  • fourberie
  • fraud
  • furtiveness
  • gambit
  • hanky-panky
  • intrigue
  • machination
  • maneuver
  • plot
  • ploy
  • ruse
  • sharp practice
  • skullduggery
  • sophistry
  • stratagem
  • animadvert on
  • bash
  • blame
  • blast
  • blister
  • carp
  • castigate
  • censure
  • chastise
  • chide
  • clobber
  • come down on
  • condemn
  • cut down
  • cut to bits
  • cut up
  • denounce
  • denunciate
  • disparage
  • do a number on
  • dress down
  • excoriate
  • find fault
  • fluff
  • altercation
  • beef
  • bickering
  • bone of contention
  • brawl
  • broil
  • brouhaha
  • commotion
  • conflict
  • contention
  • controversy
  • debate
  • difference of opinion
  • disagreement
  • discord
  • discussion
  • dissension
  • disturbance
  • embroilment
  • falling-out
  • feud
  • fireworks
  • flare-up
  • fracas
  • beat around the bush
  • beg the question
  • blow hot and cold
  • cavil
  • cloud the issue
  • con
  • cop a plea
  • cop out
  • cover up
  • dodge
  • double-talk
  • elude
  • escape
  • eschew
  • evade
  • falsify
  • fence
  • fib
  • flip-flop
  • fudge
  • give run around
  • hedge
  • hem and haw
  • jive
  • avoid
  • baffle
  • balk
  • beat around bush
  • beg the question
  • bypass
  • cavil
  • circumvent
  • conceal
  • confuse
  • cop out
  • deceive
  • decline
  • dodge
  • double
  • duck
  • elude
  • equivocate
  • escape
  • eschew
  • fence
  • fend off
  • flee
  • fly
  • backstop
  • balustrade
  • bar
  • barbed wire
  • barricade
  • block
  • boards
  • chains
  • cyclone
  • defense
  • dike
  • guard
  • hedge
  • net
  • paling
  • palisade
  • pickets
  • posts
  • rail
  • railing
  • rampart
  • roadblock
  • shield
  • stakes
  • U-turn
  • about-face
  • change
  • change of course
  • change of heart
  • changeover
  • reversal
  • second thoughts
  • switch
  • switchover
  • turn-around
  • turnabout
  • turnaround
  • altercation
  • argument
  • bickering
  • bother
  • clamor
  • commotion
  • difficulty
  • disagreement
  • dispute
  • inconvenience
  • quarrel
  • row
  • run-in
  • squabble
  • struggle
  • trial
  • trouble
  • try
  • tumult
  • turmoil
  • tussle
  • uproar
  • upset
  • whirl
  • altercate
  • bandy
  • battle
  • bicker
  • break with
  • buck
  • bump heads
  • contend
  • cross
  • cross swords
  • disagree
  • dispute
  • face down
  • face off
  • feud
  • gang up on
  • get in one's face
  • go one on one
  • hammer
  • hammer away
  • hash
  • hash over
  • hassle
  • have at each other
  • back and fill
  • beat around the bush
  • beg the question
  • dance around
  • equivocate
  • euphemize
  • fudge and mudge
  • hum and haw
  • mince words
  • shilly-shally
  • tapdance
  • bother
  • cavil
  • censure
  • complain
  • criticize
  • find fault
  • fuss
  • grumble
  • knock
  • nitpick
  • objurgate
  • pan
  • peck
  • pick at
  • quibble
  • reproach
  • altercate
  • argue over
  • argufy
  • avoid
  • bicker
  • blow hot and cold
  • carp
  • catch at straws
  • cavil
  • chicane
  • criticize
  • dispute
  • equivocate
  • evade
  • fence
  • flip-flop
  • hassle
  • have at it
  • hem and haw
  • hypercriticize
  • nit-pick
  • paralogize
  • pettifog
  • pretend
  • animadvert on
  • bash
  • blame
  • blast
  • blister
  • carp
  • castigate
  • censure
  • chastise
  • chide
  • clobber
  • come down on
  • condemn
  • cut down
  • cut to bits
  • cut up
  • denounce
  • denunciate
  • disparage
  • do a number on
  • dress down
  • excoriate
  • find fault
  • fluff
  • altercate
  • argue over
  • argufy
  • avoid
  • bicker
  • blow hot and cold
  • carp
  • catch at straws
  • cavil
  • chicane
  • criticize
  • dispute
  • equivocate
  • evade
  • fence
  • flip-flop
  • hassle
  • have at it
  • hem and haw
  • hypercriticize
  • make a big thing about
  • nit-pick
  • pettifog
  • pretend
  • altercate
  • argue over
  • argufy
  • avoid
  • bicker
  • blow hot and cold
  • carp
  • catch at straws
  • cavil
  • chicane
  • criticize
  • dispute
  • equivocate
  • evade
  • fence
  • flip-flop
  • hassle
  • have at it
  • hem and haw
  • hypercriticize
  • make a big thing about
  • niggle
  • nit-pick
  • nitpick
  • act
  • affect
  • allege
  • assume
  • be deceitful
  • be hypocritical
  • beguile
  • bluff
  • cheat
  • claim
  • claim falsely
  • counterfeit
  • cozen
  • deceive
  • delude
  • dissemble
  • dissimulate
  • dupe
  • fake out
  • feign
  • fish
  • fool
  • fudge
  • hoodwink
  • beat around the bush
  • beg the question
  • belie
  • cavil
  • con
  • distort
  • dodge
  • equivocate
  • evade
  • exaggerate
  • fabricate
  • falsify
  • fib
  • garble
  • hedge
  • invent
  • jive
  • lie
  • misrepresent
  • misspeak
  • palter
  • phony up
  • put on
  • quibble
  • argue
  • balk
  • break with
  • buck
  • contradict
  • decline
  • demur
  • differ
  • disaccord
  • discord
  • divide
  • fly in the face of
  • object
  • oppose
  • pettifog
  • protest
  • put up a fight
  • refuse
  • say no way
  • say not a chance
  • say nothing doing
  • shy
  • stickle
  • vary
  • about-face
  • alteration
  • bend
  • change
  • changeover
  • conversion
  • deflection
  • deviation
  • displacement
  • double
  • fault
  • modification
  • move
  • passage
  • permutation
  • rearrangement
  • removal
  • shifting
  • substitution
  • tack
  • transfer
  • transference
  • transformation
  • transit
  • argue
  • bicker
  • contend
  • contest
  • dispute
  • quarrel
  • wrangle
  • cavil
  • chop logic
  • make a fine distinction
  • nitpick
  • pick nits
  • quibble
  • refine a distinction
  • sharpen a distinction
  • subtilize
  • altercation
  • bickering
  • controversy
  • difference
  • difference of opinion
  • disagreement
  • dispute
  • feud
  • fight
  • flap
  • fuss
  • hassle
  • quarrel
  • row
  • scene
  • scrap
  • set-to
  • spat
  • tiff
  • words
  • wrangle
  • acknowledge
  • answer back
  • argue
  • back at you
  • back talk
  • be in touch
  • claim
  • comeback
  • contest
  • counterclaim
  • defend
  • deny
  • disprove
  • dispute
  • echo
  • explain
  • feedback
  • field the question
  • get back at
  • get back to
  • give a snappy comeback
  • parry
  • plead
  • rebut
  • change
  • change one's mind
  • equivocate
  • flip-flop
  • vacillate
  • yo-yo
  • altercation
  • battle royal
  • bickering
  • blow-off
  • blowup
  • brannigan
  • brawl
  • brouhaha
  • clash
  • contest
  • controversy
  • disagreement
  • dispute
  • exchange
  • falling-out
  • flap
  • fracas
  • hassle
  • knock-down drag-out
  • quarrel
  • row
  • ruckus
  • ruction
  • rumble

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