Answer
Answer noun - Something spoken or written in reaction especially to a question.
Usage example: the standard answer of “Fine, thank you” when asked, “How are you?”
Challenge
Challenge noun - Something that requires thought and skill for resolution.
Usage example: the many challenges facing developing countries in the 21st century
How words are described
| particular | particular answer | particular challenge |
| better | better answer | better challenge |
| common | common answer | common challenge |
| direct | direct answer | direct challenge |
| Other adjectives: original, true, reasonable, single, simple, popular, actual, real, big, serious, unique, final, official, next, last, different, previous. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The player in control could either answer or challenge an opponent to answer; players were eliminated from the round when they answered incorrectly or lost a challenge.A team won a round by eliminating all three opponents or, less often, by supplying the seventh correct answer.
Source: Series / Hot Potato -
Because most readers of the Horus Heresy books will already know what's going to happen and have an omniscient view of the storyline they will know that "I can't say" is the challenge/answer phrase for the secret Lodges.
Source: Literature / Horus Heresy - If you answer all fourteen correctly, you challenge the Feared Five, a series of difficult questions in which you have six seconds to answer each.
Source: Literature / Assignment 2
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