| No. | Item | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | acrimonious | bitterly hostile or argumentative |
| 2. | adversarial | involving opposing sides |
| 3. | agitating | stirring unrest or conflict |
| 4. | alienating | driving people apart |
| 5. | antagonistic | creating or showing opposition |
| 6. | argument-provoking | likely to start arguments |
| 7. | argumentative | tending to cause arguments |
| 8. | balkanizing | splitting into hostile small groups |
| 9. | bitter | marked by resentment and hostility |
| 10. | breakup-causing | causing a group to break apart |
| 11. | camp-forming | making people choose sides |
| 12. | charged | full of emotional tension |
| 13. | cleavage-making | creating a deep social split |
| 14. | cleaving | splitting into opposing parts |
| 15. | conflict-causing | likely to create conflict |
| 16. | conflictual | involving or producing conflict |
| 17. | contentious | likely to cause argument |
| 18. | controversial | causing public disagreement |
| 19. | controversy-making | creating public disagreement |
| 20. | controversy-stirring | arousing public disagreement |
| 21. | discord-producing | creating disagreement or disharmony |
| 22. | discordant | marked by disagreement or conflict |
| 23. | disjunctive | serving to separate or contrast |
| 24. | disruptive | disturbing unity or order |
| 25. | dissension-causing | causing disagreement within a group |
| 26. | dissociative | causing separation or disconnection |
| 27. | disunifying | weakening unity or togetherness |
| 28. | disuniting | causing loss of unity |
| 29. | dividing | separating people into groups |
| 30. | division-causing | creating division or disagreement |
| 31. | embittering | causing resentment or hostility |
| 32. | estranging | causing separation or hostility |
| 33. | exclusionary | shutting some people out |
| 34. | exclusive | excluding others from belonging |
| 35. | explosive | likely to cause sudden conflict |
| 36. | factional | relating to hostile group divisions |
| 37. | fissiparous | tending to split into factions |
| 38. | fractious | causing conflict or unruliness |
| 39. | fragmenting | breaking unity into parts |
| 40. | fraught | filled with tension or difficulty |
| 41. | hostile | marked by opposition or antagonism |
| 42. | hot-button | arousing strong opposing opinions |
| 43. | incendiary | stirring intense anger or conflict |
| 44. | inflammatory | arousing anger or conflict |
| 45. | insulting | showing disrespect and causing offense |
| 46. | knotty | complicated and dispute-prone |
| 47. | line-drawing | Creating clear opposing sides. |
| 48. | loaded | emotionally or politically charged |
| 49. | loyalty-dividing | Forcing divided loyalties among people. |
| 50. | loyalty-splitting | Dividing people’s loyalties or allegiances. |
| 51. | loyalty-testing | Pressuring people to choose sides. |
| 52. | majority-splitting | Dividing a majority into factions. |
| 53. | membership-splitting | Dividing members into opposing groups. |
| 54. | moot | open to debate or dispute |
| 55. | movement-splitting | Dividing a movement into rival groups. |
| 56. | offensive | likely to anger or upset |
| 57. | one-sided | favoring only one side |
| 58. | opinion-dividing | Separating people into opposing opinions. |
| 59. | opinion-fracturing | Breaking shared opinion into factions. |
| 60. | opinion-polarizing | Driving opinions toward opposing extremes. |
| 61. | opinion-splitting | Causing people to take opposing views. |
| 62. | opposition-forming | Creating organized resistance or opposing sides. |
| 63. | oppositional | marked by resistance or opposition |
| 64. | partial | favoring one side over another |
| 65. | partisan | strongly favoring one side |
| 66. | party-political | divided by political party loyalties |
| 67. | polarized | split into opposing sides |
| 68. | polarizing | causing opposing sides to form |
| 69. | polemical | strongly argumentative or controversial |
| 70. | politicized | turned into a political dispute |
| 71. | problematic | causing difficulty or disagreement |
| 72. | provocative | likely to provoke strong reactions |
| 73. | provoking | arousing anger or reaction |
| 74. | quarrelsome | marked by arguing or conflict |
| 75. | rabble-rousing | stirring public anger or unrest |
| 76. | rancorous | marked by bitter hostility |
| 77. | resentment-breeding | creating bitterness between people |
| 78. | rupturing | breaking unity or relations |
| 79. | schism-producing | creating a split within a group |
| 80. | schismatic | causing or involving division |
| 81. | sectarian | promoting factional religious or group division |
| 82. | sectional | favoring one section over others |
| 83. | segregating | separating groups from each other |
| 84. | sensitive | likely to provoke disagreement |
| 85. | separating | putting people into opposing groups |
| 86. | separative | serving to separate or divide |
| 87. | side-taking | pushing people into opposing sides |
| 88. | splintering | breaking into smaller factions |
| 89. | splitting | dividing people or groups |
| 90. | sundering | tearing apart or separating |
| 91. | tendentious | promoting a controversial viewpoint |
| 92. | tension-raising | increasing strain between people |
| 93. | thorny | difficult and disagreement-prone |
| 94. | touchy | easily causing offense or argument |
| 95. | tribal | marked by strong group loyalties |
| 96. | troublesome | causing trouble or disagreement |
| 97. | unsettling | disturbing agreement or calm |
| 98. | us-versus-them | framing people as opposing camps |
| 99. | vexed | difficult and much debated |
| 100. | wedge-driving | forcing groups apart |