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| NOUN: | 1. A disposition of the facial features that conveys meaning, feeling, or mood: aspect, cast, countenance, expression, look, visage. See EXPRESS. 2. A deceptive outward appearance: cloak, color, coloring, cover, disguise, disguisement, façade, false colors, front, gloss, guise, mask, masquerade, pretense, pretext, semblance, show, veil, veneer, window-dressing. Slang : put-on. See SHOW. 3. The forward outer surface of a building: façade, front, frontage, frontal. Architecture : frontispiece. See PRECEDE. 4. A facial contortion indicating displeasure, disgust, or pain: grimace, moue, mouth, pout. Informal : mug. See EXPRESS. 5. An outward appearance: aspect, countenance, look, physiognomy, surface, visage. See SURFACE. 6. The front surface of the head: countenance, feature (often used in plural), muzzle, visage. Informal : mug. Slang : kisser, map, pan, puss. See PRECEDE. 7. The level of credit or respect at which one is regarded by others: prestige, standing, status. See RESPECT. 8. The marked outer surface of an instrument: dial. See PRECEDE. 9. The outer layer of an object: surface, top. See SURFACE. 10. The state or quality of being impudent or arrogantly self-confident: assumption, audaciousness, audacity, boldness, brashness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah, discourtesy, disrespect, effrontery, familiarity, forwardness, gall1, impertinence, impudence, impudency, incivility, insolence, nerve, nerviness, overconfidence, pertness, presumptuousness, pushiness, rudeness, sassiness, sauciness. Informal : brass, crust, sauce, uppishness, uppityness. See ATTITUDE, COURTESY. | | VERB: | 1. To meet face-to-face, especially defiantly: accost, confront, encounter, front. See MEET. 2. To confront boldly and courageously: beard, brave, challenge, dare, defy, front. Idioms: fly in the face of, snap one's fingers at, stand up to, thumb one's nose at. See RESIST. 3. To come up against: confront, encounter, meet1, run into. See MEET. 4. To furnish with a covering of a different material: clad, cover, sheathe, side, skin. See SURFACE. 5. To have the face or front turned in a specific direction: front, look (on or upon). See PRECEDE.
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