Conflictual

My new word of the day is "conflictual."

I didn't give it a chance when I first saw it, but that was just bigotry against a familiar word with a new suffix. Just because Washington is full of those Frankenstein creations doesn't mean they're all monsters. If you can reduce a lengthy or involved or bulky concept to a single word that might fit in conversation outside its original context (for conflictual, that seems to be psychology), that's a useful thing.

It's no "incentivize," or, God forbid, "incent." That's a prejudice I don't think anyone can turn me around on.

This is not bigoted: I like -ual at least as much as -mania or -teria.