argumentative
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South Hall is known as one of Eastern’s “dump-off” blocks, where they send rabble-rousers, the outspoken, argumentative prisoners, the ones who have most fallen out of favor with the guards.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Iran’s new leaders got the multiday event off to an argumentative start.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Yet Bengal - argumentative and steeped in a self-image of cultural exceptionalism - remained stubbornly resistant.
From BBC ● May 4, 2026
“Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes,” an argumentative state-of-the-nation play with eccentrically drawn characters of Chekhovian complexity, represents the pinnacle of the playwright’s achievement in this genre.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2024
Even his argumentative disposition, to use an even more Wuthering Heights kind of phrase.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
Vocabulary lists containing argumentative
Common Core Grades 7–8, List 1
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Common Core Grade 6, List 1
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Common Core Grades 9–10, List 1
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