Thesaurus / challenges
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synonyms for challenges
- try
- claim
- confront
- defy
- impose
- denounce
- assert
- demand
- test
- require
- call for
- impugn
- brave
- vindicate
- inquire
- tax
- cross
- impeach
- summon
- accost
- investigate
- arouse
- reclaim
- query
- provoke
- exact
- stimulate
- dare
- beard
- face the music
- throw down the gauntlet
- ask for
- call out
- face down
- face off
- fly in the face of
- hang in
- insist upon
- invite competition
- make a point of
- make a stand
- object to
- search out
- stand up to
- stick it out
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For every detail is so marvellously symmetrical that no one is dwarfed, no one challenges special attention.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYAnd yet, the acknowledged state of things here is a grave fact which challenges inquiry and demands explanation.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYNo man opens his ware with greater seriousness, or challenges your judgment more in the operation.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.I could observe groups and clusters of coloured coral and madrepore-stone, whose magnificence challenges all description.
A WOMAN'S JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLDIDA PFEIFFERCalendau, after witnessing the lascivious dances, challenges the Count to mortal combat.
FRDRIC MISTRALCHARLES ALFRED DOWNERAll the world is shut out from this, while in the former he challenges the world by the comparison.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTERThe communiers, at least a majority of them, felt themselves strong enough to despise the challenges to riot.
THE PILGRIM'S SHELL OR FERGAN THE QUARRYMANEUGNE SUEThat he goes by another name, but do not disguise himself, nor deny himself to any man that challenges him.
DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, COMPLETESAMUEL PEPYSStill, this is by no means a complete solution of the problem which again and again presents itself and challenges our ingenuity.
FREDERICK CHOPIN AS A MAN AND MUSICIANFREDERICK NIECKSTrumpets are sounded and Edgar enters with a vizor concealing his face, and, without giving his name, challenges Edmund.
TOLSTOY ON SHAKESPEARELEO TOLSTOY