Synonyms for Putting up an argument:

• v.

  •dissent (verb)
  • demur,
  • break with,
  • refuse,
  • fly in the face of,
  • discord,
  • wrangle,
  • stickle,
  • shy,
  • object,
  • put up a fight,
  • put up an argument,
  • protest,
  • pettifog,
  • divide,
  • vary,
  • say nothing doing,
  • buck,
  • oppose,
  • balk,
  • differ,
  • say no way,
  • decline,
  • disaccord,
  • argue,
  • contradict,
  • say not a chance.
  •fight (verb)
  • fall out,
  • lay into,
  • exert oneself,
  • wage,
  • toil on,
  • combat,
  • hammer away,
  • stand up to,
  • persevere,
  • conduct,
  • take pains,
  • dispute,
  • push forward,
  • maintain,
  • continue,
  • buckle down,
  • support,
  • bicker,
  • repel,
  • uphold,
  • effect,
  • prosecute,
  • further,
  • force,
  • row,
  • light into,
  • hassle,
  • take on,
  • struggle,
  • tangle with,
  • make a stand against,
  • squabble,
  • traverse,
  • carry on,
  • resist,
  • strive,
  • endure,
  • travail,
  • withstand,
  • contest,
  • spare no effort,
  • defy,
  • persist,
  • engage in.
  •pettifog (verb)
  • pick to pieces,
  • niggle,
  • nitpick.
  •quibble (verb)
  • flip-flop,
  • avoid,
  • Paralogize,
  • hem and haw,
  • pretend,
  • split hairs,
  • talk back,
  • argufy,
  • hypercriticize,
  • waffle,
  • chicane,
  • prevaricate,
  • blow hot and cold,
  • catch at straws,
  • have at it,
  • evade,
  • carp,
  • cavil,
  • altercate,
  • criticize,
  • set to,
  • spar,
  • argue over,
  • fence,
  • nit-pick,
  • equivocate,
  • shift,
  • make a big thing about.

Antonyms for Putting up an argument:

• v.

  • dissent
    approve, agree, concur, endorse, consent, assent, ratify, sanction, authorize.
  • fight
    uphold, believe, support.