POLEMICAL

PRONUNCIATION: (puh-LEM-uh-kuhl)

MEANING: adjective: Relating to or involving strong, critical, or controversial writing or speech.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek polemikos, from polemos (war). A related word is polemology (the science and study of human conflict and war). Earliest documented use: 1615.
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"POLE" MICAH - the minor Biblical prophet and early critic of social injustice was skinny as a rail

PTOLEMICAL - an Egyptian dynasty, initiated by founder of the theory that the Earth is the center of the Universe (and possibly father of Alexander the Great)

PRO-LEMICAL - in favor of jumping off a cliff as part of an unthinking mob