ALTERCATE

PRONUNCIATION: (AL-tuhr-kayt)

MEANING: verb intr.: To argue or dispute heatedly.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin altercari (to quarrel with another), from alter (other). Earliest documented use: 1530.
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ALTARCATE - when religious extremists of two different faiths have a disagreement

ALTERCYTE - a stem cell that just differentiated

ALTERCAT - Garfield got fixed