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wrangle (RANG guhl) (verb)
1. To argue angrily with someone: "You could easily hear the couple wrangle over the money that Henry wanted to spend on the next trip."
2. An informal expression in the U.S. meaning to get something by a clever manipulation or by persuading someone: "Justin's sister was able to wrangle two tickets to the concert for Saturday evening."
3. In the U.S., to control and to care for horses, cattle, etc. on a ranch: "Sandra spent last year learning how to wrangle horses."
2. An informal expression in the U.S. meaning to get something by a clever manipulation or by persuading someone: "Justin's sister was able to wrangle two tickets to the concert for Saturday evening."
3. In the U.S., to control and to care for horses, cattle, etc. on a ranch: "Sandra spent last year learning how to wrangle horses."
wrangle (RANG guhl) (noun)
A dispute that lasts for a long time: "There has been a wrangle in the U.S. Congress about a government run public option health-care bill for more than a year."
How much wrangling will politicians wrangle in order to wrangle a re-election?
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group W; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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