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The word of the day is ‘wrangle’.
The word is a noun, i.e., it is the main subject of a sentence and the word is a verb, i.e., it demonstrates an action or an occurrence.
No, the word is a noun. Therefore, it does not have a past form and the past form of the verb is wrangled.
It means:
1. Fight
2. Argument
3. Have a long, complicated dispute or argument
4. Brawl
1. It is but a gardener’s wrangle—how best to guard roses against slugs.
2. But we can only conjecture dimly, and leave the controversialists to wrangle.
3. The bureaucrats continue wrangling over the fine print.
4. He is no base grater of his tythes, and will not wrangle for the odd egg.
5. “Let us get to business,” cried the priest, anxious to terminate the wrangle.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
bickering, brawl, brouhaha, disagreement, falling-out, flap, fracas, hassle, quarrel, ruckus, squabble, tiff, blowup, clash, contest, controversy, dispute, exchange, row, ruction, rumble, rumpus, scene, set-to, battle, disagree, quibble, tangle, altercate, contend, scrap, spat, bump heads, cross swords, fall out, lock horns, pick a bone, put up a fight, argue, bicker, debate, be at odds, bandy words, war, battle, feud, grapple, spar, wrestle, tilt, come to blows, cross swords, be at each other’s throats, be at loggerheads, scrap, go at it hammer and tongs, fight like cat and dog, threap etc.
agree, concur, give in, make peace
Quotation:
It doesn’t pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he’ll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn’t say.
Jules Renard
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