The word 'accost' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an act or instance of approaching or speaking to someone boldly or aggressively. Example: He was accosted by a stranger when he walked out of the station.
The same apathy that pinks the borders of your vision when similar tossers accost you in the street/attempt to approach you employing snazzy helicopters/clutter your post with puerile leaflets claiming they have your best interests at heart.
Mr Emanuel's money let him accost voters through their television sets.
Tramps gather around the Greyhound bus station, just as they do in any other American city; tattooed youths ask for spare change; and not all the girls who accost you are trying to explain the principles of Mormonism.
They were obliged to live frugally, rise early, put on a suit every day and tirelessly accost strangers.
Though he complains that his staff are too protective and that he would like to mix with people more, he does not seem entirely at ease; his eyes dart around as he tries to anticipate which of the throng of well-wishers, sycophants and supplicants will accost him next.
Mr Dzurinda recounts, with evident sympathy, how poor Slovak farmers often accost him with tales of how crops and animals, even pet dogs, have been stolen by Gypsies.
Some brave residents are so keen to speak out that they accost strangers, asking if they are journalists.
More profoundly, they found that in environments where disorderly behaviour goes unchecked where prostitutes visibly ply their trade or beggars accost passers-by more serious street crime flourishes.
The 24-year-old student says rebels would accost him as he made his way to university and force him to spend a few days labouring for them.
As he was leaving, I thought I would accost him by the lift and ask him if he always booked his holidays through the Daily Mail.
Rules developed by the Public Fundraising Regulatory Association also state s that Chuggers are not allowed to follow us for more than three steps, or loiter near shop doorways or cashpoints, or accost us when we're drunk, though that doesn't seemed to have curbed the irritation of shoppers who simply don't want to encounter them at all.
