| Main Entry: | accost |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | approach for conversation or solicitation |
Synonyms: |
address, annoy, bother, brace*, buttonhole, call, challenge, confront, cross, dare, entice, face, flag, greet, hail, proposition, run into, salute, welcome, whistle for |
Antonyms: |
avoid, dodge, evade, ignore, scorn, shun |
| Main Entry: | approach |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make request, suggestion |
Synonyms: |
accost, address, advise, appeal to, apply to, beseech, confer, consult, entreat, feel, feel one out, give a play, give a tumble, greet, implore, make advance, make overture, make up to, plead, propose, sound out, speak to, supplicate, take aside, talk to, thumb, tumble |
| Main Entry: | challenge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dispute, question |
Synonyms: |
accost, arouse, ask for, assert, beard, brave, call for, call out, claim, confront, cross, dare, defy, demand, denounce, exact, face down, face off, face the music, fly in the face of, hang in, impeach, impose, impugn, inquire, insist upon, investigate, invite competition, make a point of, make a stand, object to, provoke, query, reclaim, require, search out, stand up to, stick it out, stimulate, summon, tax, test, throw down the gauntlet, try, vindicate |
Antonyms: |
agreement, answer, decision, victory |
| Main Entry: | confront |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | challenge |
Synonyms: |
accost, affront, beard, brave, call one's bluff, come up against, dare, defy, encounter, face down, face up to, face with, flout, front, go one-on-one, go up against, make my day, meet, meet eyeball-to-eyeball, oppose, repel, resist, scorn, stand up to, tell off, withstand |
Antonyms: |
back down |
| Main Entry: | face |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come up against a situation |
Synonyms: |
abide, accost, affront, allow, be confronted by, bear, beard, bit the bullet, brace, brave, brook, challenge, confront, contend, cope with, countenance, court, cross, dare, deal with, defy, encounter, endure, experience, eyeball, fight, fly in face of, go up against, grapple with, make a stand, meet, oppose, resist, risk, run into, square off, stand, stomach*, submit, suffer, sustain, swallow*, take, take it, take on, take the bull by the horns, tell off, tolerate, venture, withstand |
Antonyms: |
hide, retreat, run, withdraw |
| Main Entry: | greet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | welcome |
Synonyms: |
accost, acknowledge, address, approach, attend, bow, call to, compliment, curtsy, embrace, exchange greetings, extend one's hand, flag, hail, herald, high-five, highball, meet, move to, nod, pay respects, receive, recognize, roll out the red carpet, salaam, salute, say hello, say hi, shake hands, shoulder, speak to, stop, tip one's hat, usher in, whistle for |
Antonyms: |
say farewell, say goodbye |
| Main Entry: | hail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | call to, yell for |
Synonyms: |
accost, address, flag, flag down, greet, hello, holler*, salute, shoulder, shout, signal, sing out, speak to, wave down, welcome, whistle down, whistle for, yawp, yoo-hoo |
Antonyms: |
whisper |
| Main Entry: | harangue |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give a long lecture |
Synonyms: |
accost, address, apostrophize, buttonhole, chew out, declaim, exhort, get on a soapbox, go on about, hold forth, orate, perorate, rant, rave, soapbox, spiel*, spout, stump, talk to, yell at |
| Main Entry: | meet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen on |
Synonyms: |
accost, affront, brush against, bump into, chance on, clash, collide, come across, come up against, confront, contact, cross, dig up, encounter, engage, experience, face, fall in with, find, front, get together, grapple, greet, hit, light, luck*, make a meet, meet face to face, rendezvous with, rub eyeballs, run across, run into, run up against, salute, see, strike, stumble, touch shoulders, tumble, tussle, wrestle |
Antonyms: |
miss |
| Main Entry: | molest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | physically abuse |
Synonyms: |
accost, assail, attack, disorganize, displace, disturb, encroach, fondle, harm, hinder, hurt, illtreat, injure, interfere, intrude, maltreat, meddle, misuse, rape |
Antonyms: |
be careful, guard, protect |