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      agonistic
      adjective
      struggling for effect
      striving to overcome in argument
      of or relating to the athletic contests held in ancient Greece
      Roots
      agonagon- · Greek · contest, struggleistes-ist · Greek · one who doesikos-ic · Greek · pertaining to
      Words related to agonistic
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