Call
Call verb - To speak so as to be heard at a distance.
To challenge and call are semantically related. In some cases you can replace phrase "To challenge" with "Call", this terms are similar.
To challenge
Call and to challenge are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Call" instead a verb phrase "To challenge".
Both terms in one sentence
- Miyoshi's father, who was friends with Mashiro's uncle and was in love with the same woman, has Takagi call Mashiro over, supposedly wanting to challenge him to a sparring match, but instead has them go to a restaurant to talk about it without his wife and daughter hearing.
Source: Talk About That Thing - The samurai from the early episode is universally hated for interrupting Ash when he's in the middle of catching a Weedle in order to challenge him, causing said Pokemon to call a swarm of angry Beedrill, which proceed to steal Ash's Metapod and force them into hiding.
Source: The Scrappy / Pokémon - Played for laughs in The Rivals, where Bob Acres is persuaded by peer pressure to challenge his romantic rival to a duel, but then immediately starts coming up with excuses to call the whole thing off.
Source: Dirty Coward
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