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Challenge   /tʃˈæləndʒ/   Listen
Challenge

noun
1.
A demanding or stimulating situation.
2.
A call to engage in a contest or fight.
3.
Questioning a statement and demanding an explanation.
4.
A formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror.
5.
A demand by a sentry for a password or identification.
verb
(past & past part. challenged; pres. part. challenging)
1.
Take exception to.  Synonyms: dispute, gainsay.
2.
Issue a challenge to.
3.
Ask for identification.
4.
Raise a formal objection in a court of law.  Synonym: take exception.



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"Challenge" Quotes from Famous Books



... sir king," he roared, as Thurston turned to him. "Hearken to my tidings. I am come hither with a Saracen host, and my comrades are close at hand. From them I bring a challenge; and this is the challenge. One of us alone will fight any three of your knights, in a certain place. If your three slay our one, then we will depart and leave you and your land unscathed. But if our one champion slays your ...
— The Junior Classics, V4 • Willam Patten (Editor)
... should be done?' 'Ain't nobody to be whopped for takin' this here liberty, sir?' said Mr. Weller, who had expected that at least he would have been commissioned to challenge the guard and the coachman to a ...
— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens
... his sword over his unconscious sister. Moved by his great love and sorrow, Bruennhilde for the first time is swayed by human emotions, and exultantly declares, "I will protect thee." Hunding's horn sounds in the distance, and soon is heard his defiant challenge to battle. Siegmund rushes to the top of one of the cloudy summits, and the clash of their arms resounds in the mists. A sudden gleam of light shows Bruennhilde hovering over Siegmund, and protecting him with her shield. As he prepares himself to deal a deadly thrust ...
— The Standard Operas (12th edition) • George P. Upton
... not take things by any means so quietly. We were the less sorry for my brother's absence that such an insinuation almost demanded a challenge, though in truth I doubt whether they would have dared to make it had he been at hand. Annora did wish she could take sword or pistols in hand and make him choke on his own words, and she was very angry that our brother de Solivet was much too cool and prudent to take Eustace's quarrel ...
— Stray Pearls • Charlotte M. Yonge
... first crocus is out of the ground, you may look for the first chipmunk. When I hear the little downy woodpecker begin his spring drumming, then I know the chipmunk is due. He cannot sleep after that challenge of the woodpecker ...
— Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers • John Burroughs


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