confront vs puzzle

confront

verb
  • To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to. 

  • To set a thing side by side with; to compare. 

  • To deal with. 

  • To come up against; to encounter. 

  • To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with 

  • To engage in confrontation. 

  • To bring someone face to face with something. 

puzzle

verb
  • To think long and carefully, in bewilderment. 

  • To perplex, confuse, or mystify; to cause (someone) to be faced with a mystery, without answers or an explanation. 

  • To make intricate; to entangle. 

noun
  • Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of. 

  • A riddle. 

  • The state of being puzzled; perplexity. 

  • A game for one or more people that is more or less difficult to work out or complete. 

  • A jigsaw puzzle. 

  • A crossword puzzle. 

How often have the words confront and puzzle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )