Challenge: alternatives and connections

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injust…

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To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

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To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.

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To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.

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To hinder; to impede; to prevent.

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To attack by words or arguments; to contradict; to assail; to call in question; to make insinuations against; to gainsay; to oppose.

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To make the subject of a lawsuit; to contest in law; to prosecute or defend by pleadings, exhibition of evidence, and judicial debate in a court; as,…

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To fight against; to attack; to be in conflict with; to oppose; to resist.

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The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

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To recommit; to send back.

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To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.

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To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…

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To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo.

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To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.

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of Bid

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To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.

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To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.

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To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

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of Inquire

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To ask; to request; to bid; to summon; to ask to do some act, or go to some place; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company…

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To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

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The act of objecting; as, to prevent agreement, or action, by objection.

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The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property…

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of Question

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To fight against; to oppose; to resist.

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The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.

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Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation.

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Act of confrontating.

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To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.

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of Dare

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The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.

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A military punishment formerly in use, wherein the offender was made to run between two files of men facing one another, who struck him as he passed.

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See Gantlet.

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That may be challenged.

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That may be challenged.

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A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.

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A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.

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3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth.

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To fight against; to attack; to be in conflict with; to oppose; to resist.

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The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

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To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wra…

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To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.

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A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a q…

Challenge overlaps with problem, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance.

Test or oppose a claim more firmly.

A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a q…

Challenge can frame a difficulty as something to address, but should not hide serious harm.