Confrontation Meaning
/ˌkɒn.fɹənˈteɪ.ʃən/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face.
nounA conflict between armed forces.
Sentence Examples
He deliberately kept on provoking a confrontation.
I don't like confrontation.
She wanted to avoid another confrontation with her father.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The heated ____ between the two politicians lasted for over an hour.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
To avoid a physical ____, the referee quickly separated the two angry players on the field.
Word Origin & History
From Middle French. Morphologically confront + -ation.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domains of ethical and political philosophy)[…]"
— 1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 489:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The heated ____ between the two politicians lasted for over an hour.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
To avoid a physical ____, the referee quickly separated the two angry players on the field.