Synonyms and related words :
accept, affix, altercate, anchor, annex, apologetics, apologia, apology, argument, argumentation, assume, attach, attack, attempt, barney, begin, belay, bicker, bickering, blast away, blast off, brawl, broil, buckle to, casuistry, cement, cinch, clamp, clinch, commence, contention, controversy, cramp, defense, differ, disputation, dispute, dive in, dive into, dustup, embark, embark in, embark upon, endeavor, engage in, engraft, enter, enter on, enter upon, fall into, fall to, fasten, feud, fight, fix, flite, flyting, get busy, get cracking, get going, get off, get to, get under way, get with it, go about, go ahead, go at, go in for, go into, go to it, go upon, graft, grapple, hassle, have at, have words, head into, hop to it, hubbub, join issue, jump off, jump to it, kick off, knit, knock-down-and-drag-out, launch, launch forth, launch into, lay about, light into, litigation, logomachy, make fast, moor, move into, open, paper war, passage of arms, pitch in, pitch into, plunge into, polemic, polemics, proceed to, put to, quarrel, rhubarb, row, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, run-in, sail into, scrap, screw up, secure, send off, set, set about, set at, set forward, set going, set in, set out, set sail, set to work, shindy, spar, spat, squabble, start, start in, start off, start out, tackle, take off, take on, take up, tiff, tighten, trice up, trim, turn to, undertake, venture upon, verbal engagement, wade into, war of words, wrangle, wrangling