To confrontate is to converse in a confrontational yet graceful manner with the purpose of inciting an emotional response that can then be turned into a debate about why the responding party had to respond in such an emotional manner
As I watched from a distance I could see two girls start to move closer to each other as they slowly began to circle each other with heads jerking back and forth and index fingers raised, as one girl made herself a little louder and straightened herself to be slightly more intimidating than the other, it was obvious they were about to confrontate over an unknown but important issue,
describes an individual whose online, typewritten persona (in font) is vastly different than the one perceived in real-life, particularly from the aspect of being obnoxious, demanding, or arrogant.
Kelly: Ugh! Chris totally bitched at me for not doing his work for him and told me how lucky I should feel that he is actually my friend.
Paco: Chris? Really? But, he's so quiet! I can't imagine him saying something like that.
Kelly: Yeah, well, his true colors come out when he's in IM. Sometimes, I even have to use "Invisible" status to hide, because he's SO conFONTational!
Confrontation is an element of conflict wherein parties confront one another, directly engaging one another in the course of a dispute between them. A confrontation can be at any scale, between any number of people, between entire nations or cultures, or between living things other than humans. Metaphorically, a clash of forces of nature, or between one person and his own causes of internal turmoil, might be described as a confrontation.