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# challenge

«challenge» in Mova's school dictionary: **a hard task or contest that tests how good or strong you are** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (challenge, challenges); verb (challenge, challenges, challenged, challenging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A challenge is a hard task or contest that tests how good or strong you are. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/challenge/#m1)

2) To challenge someone is to invite them to a contest: «I challenge you to a race». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/challenge/#m2)

3) To challenge something is to question whether it is right or true. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/challenge/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a contest or a goal in the story, often with a target number; in school, «challenge questions» are harder ones; phrases «take up the challenge», «rise to the challenge», «challenging» (hard), «reading challenge»

### examples

- The reading challenge is 100 books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/challenge/#x1)
- She did 20 push-ups in the challenge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/challenge/#x2)
- How many more to finish the challenge? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/challenge/#x3)
- Challenge: find the missing number. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/challenge/#x4)
- Learning to swim was a big challenge for him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/challenge/#x5)
- I challenge you to a race to the tree! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/challenge/#x6)
- She rose to the challenge and won. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/challenge/#x7)
- It's OK to challenge an idea if you have a reason. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/challenge/#x8)
- The puzzle was very challenging. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/challenge/#x9)
- Online «challenges» that are dangerous should never be tried. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/challenge/#x10)
- The giantess was delighted, and challenged him to wrestle with her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/challenge/#x11)

### note

A goal: what is left = goal − done. Trap: «challenge» in a heading is not a quantity. Safety: some online challenges are dangerous dares; say no and tell an adult.

### In the corpora

- [When they want to help, they give money to charities, get sponsored for a challenge or volunteer their time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/5/)
- [Sponsorship means people promise to give money to a charity if someone completes a challenge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/17/)
- [Online "challenges" can be deadly; never try one, whoever says it is safe.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/14-stop-think-check-ask/13/)
- [A long, hard stare can be a challenge in gorilla language, so keepers ask visitors not to stare at the gorillas.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/84-ape-house-gorillas-and-chimpanzees/12/)
- ["Physically challenged" means physically disabled; it is mostly American.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/4-illness-disability-and-babies/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «challenge» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/challenge/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.