argument (n.)
- action
- addend
- affray
- altercation
- angle
- answer
- antilogarithm
- apologetics
- apologia
- apology
- architectonics
- architecture
- argumentation
- assertion
- atmosphere
- background
- base
- basis
- bicker
- bickering
- binomial
- brawl
- broil
- case
- casuistry
- catastrophe
- characteristic
- characterization
- claim
- coefficient
- color
- combat
- combination
- complement
- complication
- conflict
- congruence
- consideration
- constant
- contention
- contentiousness
- contest
- contestation
- continuity
- contrivance
- controversy
- cosine
- cotangent
- cube
- debate
- decimal
- defence
- defense
- demurrer
- denial
- denominator
- denouement
- derivative
- design
- determinant
- development
- device
- difference
- differential
- disagreement
- disputation
- dispute
- dissension
- dividend
- divisor
- e
- embroilment
- enmity
- episode
- equation
- evidence
- exception
- exponent
- exponential
- fable
- factor
- feud
- fight
- fighting
- formula
- foundation
- fracas
- fray
- function
- fuss
- gimmick
- ground
- hassle
- head
- hostility
- hubbub
- hurrah
- i
- imbroglio
- incident
- increment
- index
- integral
- line
- litigation
- logic
- logomachy
- matrix
- matter
- minuend
- mood
- motif
- motive
- movement
- multiple
- multiplier
- norm
- numerator
- objection
- parameter
- peripeteia
- permutation
- pi
- plan
- plea
- pleading
- pleadings
- plot
- point
- polemic
- polemics
- polynomial
- position
- posture
- power
- proof
- proposition
- pros
- quarrel
- quarrelsomeness
- quaternion
- quotient
- radical
- radix
- reason
- rebuttal
- reciprocal
- recognition
- refutation
- remainder
- reply
- response
- rhubarb
- riposte
- root
- row
- rumpus
- scheme
- scrap
- secant
- set-to
- sine
- slant
- snarl
- spat
- squabble
- stance
- standpoint
- statement
- story
- strife
- structure
- struggle
- subject
- subtrahend
- summation
- switch
- tangent
- tensor
- testimony
- text
- theme
- thesis
- tiff
- tone
- topic
- tussle
- twist
- variable
- vector
- vendetta
- war
- warfare
- wherefore
- why
- words
- wrangle
- wrangling
I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellect too.
It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever.
What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support,
That to the height of this great argument
I may assert eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men.
I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
A knock-down argument: 't is but a word and a blow.
Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honour's at the stake.
Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument.
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Attic tragedies of stateliest and most regal argument.
Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.
All are needed by each one;
Nothing is fair or good alone.
The truth is always the strongest argument.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.
