Confront and Encourage

Confront

Confront verb - To oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or courage.

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Encourage and confront are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Encourage" instead a verb "Confront".

Encourage verb - To fill with courage or strength of purpose.

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Confront and encourage are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Confront" instead a verb "Encourage".

Nearby Words: encouragement, encouraging

person	confront person	encourage person
friend	confront friend	encourage friend
people	confront people	encourage people
parents	confront parents	encourage parents
Other words: army, way, characters, player, enemy, son, friends, soldiers, heroes.

However, they are forced to confront serious threats because not doing so would make them seem weak and encourage backstabbing.

Source: Video Game / Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
In One Piece, Sanji brings up this phenomenon in order to encourage Usopp, since they're on their way to defy and confront "God Enel" of Skypeia.

Source: Odd Job Gods

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