| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | The act of expressing strong or reasoned opposition: challenge, demur, exception, expostulation, objection, protestation, remonstrance, remonstration, squawk. Slang : kick. See SUPPORT. | | VERB: | To express opposition, often by argument: challenge, demur, except, expostulate, inveigh, object, remonstrate. Informal : kick, squawk. Idioms: set up a squawk, take exception. See SUPPORT.
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| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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