altercate vs polemicise

altercate and polemicise both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
altercate	No	No	Yes	No
polemicise	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, polemicise is a hyponym of altercate; that is, polemicise is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than altercate:

Other hyponyms of altercate include brawl, wrangle, spat, polemicize, polemise, polemize, fall out.

altercate (verb)	polemicise (verb)
have a disagreement over something	engage in a controversy