facing, addressing, tackling, dealing, grappling, encountering, solving, overcoming, besetting, afflicting, plaguing, combating, posed, challenges, vexing, resolving, coping, responding, pressing, acknowledging, countering, bedeviling, tormenting, inflicting, taming, vanquishing, subduing, surmounting, preoccupying, conquering, battling, uniting, remedying, sympathizing, flinching, daunting, recognizing, expiating, eradicating, discussing, articulating, portraying, resisting, communicating, redressing, grips, persisting, befalling, dogging, temporize, looming, sidestepping, ignoring, exorcising, talking, tangling, reconciling, dramatizing, quelling, resorting, attacking, exposing, wreaking, demonizing, succumbing, embracing, experiencing, menaces, wrestles, educating, ridding, reining, rescuing, terrorizing, besieging, aggressing, chastising, perceiving, blaming, outfoxing, defusing, festering, waging, pursuing, placating, thwarting, adapting, dodged, dialoging, disabusing, rectifying, presents, empathized, enduring, coexisting, beleaguering, crucifying, assailing, misconceive, staring, engulfing, realizing, piercing, grasping, performing, practicing, sallies, stab, starting, telling, wallop, wooing, abiding, alertness, answering, asking, bringing, bumps, buying, catching, localised, manichaean, minimizing, supportive, traditionalist, unilineal, wellestablished, accepted, adversarial, affecting, aggravating, algebraic, allencompassing, ambivalent, amish, analogous, antiochene, aporetic, aspatial, atemporal

face, facing

confrontation, face, face to face, facing, opposition

attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try

braving, coping with, grappling, tackling