argumentative
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Ravizza moved up to the drive-thru window and became argumentative with a male employee.
From Seattle Times • May 28, 2024
“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
Or even to prevent triggering and problematic contestants from infiltrating a space that could harm a woman, a woman whose family history has aleady been marked with argumentative, angry parents.
From Salon • Apr. 1, 2024
He had a shorter temper and was argumentative with family members in a way he never had been before the crash.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2024
The correspondence lost its argumentative edge and shifted back to an elegiac, still-life pattern after 1820.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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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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