confront (v.)
- accost
- advance
- affront
- analogize
- approach
- approximate
- assimilate
- await
- baffle
- balance
- balk
- beard
- blast
- brave
- brazen
- breast
- brew
- challenge
- checkmate
- circumvent
- close
- come
- compare
- complain
- confound
- contend
- contrast
- contravene
- counter
- counteract
- countermand
- counterpose
- cross
- dare
- dash
- defeat
- defy
- destroy
- discomfit
- disconcert
- discountenance
- dish
- dispute
- disrupt
- dissent
- elude
- encounter
- envisage
- face
- flout
- flummox
- foil
- front
- frustrate
- gather
- hover
- impend
- liken
- loom
- lower
- match
- meet
- menace
- near
- nonplus
- object
- oppose
- overhang
- parallel
- perplex
- polarize
- protest
- proximate
- recalcitrate
- relate
- remonstrate
- resist
- revolt
- ruin
- sabotage
- scorn
- scotch
- scout
- spike
- spoil
- stand
- stem
- stonewall
- stump
- subtend
- threaten
- thwart
- upset
- weigh
- withstand