Answer
Answer verb - To speak or write in reaction to a question or to another reaction.
Challenged is an antonym for answer.
Challenged
Challenged adjective - Deprived of the power to perform one or more natural bodily activities.
Both words in one sentence
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Tempts Fate is challenged with a devilishly complicated riddle by a talking door, and the wrong answer will unleash horrible death.
Source: Cutting the Knot -
A Song of Ice and Fire features a number of "trials by combat" in which people are challenged to a duel in answer for their perceived crimes or to settle a dispute.
Source: Duel to the Death -
The Network doesn't give a straightforward answer when it is challenged on how many other species, besides humans, it has dealt with using the same hamfisted methods, in a way that seems like a tacit admission of previous failures.
Source: Film / The World's End
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