antagonism, enmity, confrontation

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  1. antagonism
    an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility
  2. enmity
    a state of deep-seated ill-will
  3. confrontation
    discord resulting from a clash of ideas or opinions
  4. ambuscade
    the act of hiding and waiting to make a surprise attack
  5. implicit
    suggested though not directly expressed
  6. impellent
    forcing forward or onward; impelling
  7. ambivalent
    uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
  8. multivalent
    able to form two or more chemical bonds
  9. polysemantic
    of words; having many meanings
  10. ravening
    excessively greedy and grasping
  11. craniate
    animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium
  12. anathematize
    curse or declare to be evil
  13. misogynic
    (used of men) having deep-seated distrust of women
  14. Höhepunkt
    the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
  15. point of apoapsis
    the point in an orbit farthest from the body being orbited
  16. consummation
    the act of bringing to completion or fruition
  17. schrauben
    tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions
Created on Tue Feb 27 13:06:43 EST 2007

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