Disputation
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument. A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other on some question proposed.
Argument
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason:A verbal dispute; a quarrel.A process of reasoning.A series of statements organized so that the final statement is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding statements, which function as premises.The independent variable of a function.A value, or reference to a value, passed to a function.A parameter in a function definition; a formal argument.Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
Example sentence: The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.