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| malevolence(noun, violence, opposition, hatred, hostility) | |
| malice(noun, violence, opposition, hatred, hostility) | |
| mettle(noun, attack, spirit, fight) | |
| militantness | |
| offence | |
| onset | |
| opposition(noun, violence, hatred, hostility, forcefulness) | |
| pluck(noun, attack, spirit, fight) | |
| quarrelsome | |
| rancor(noun, violence, opposition, hatred, hostility) | |
| resentment(noun, violence, opposition, hatred, hostility) | |
| resistance(noun, attack, spirit, fight) | |
| spirit(noun, attack, fight) | |
| spite(noun, violence, opposition, hatred, hostility) | |
| spleen(noun, violence, opposition, hatred, hostility) | |
| strange | |
| strange bedfellows(expression, idiom, discord) | |
| susceptibility | |
| tartness | |
| troublesomeness(quarrelsomeness, disputatiousness) |
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