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How to spell conflict
What it means: A disagreement or argument.
In a sentence: When two friends want the same toy, they might have a conflict.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as conflick or conflikt.
Same family: conflicts, conflicted, conflicting, conflictive, contradict. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Conflict” comes from Latin *confligere*, meaning “to strike together” or “to clash.” Over time, English began to use it not only for physical clashes in battle but also for clashes between ideas, rules, or schedules—as in laws that conflict.
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