Challenge and Try

Challenge

Challenge verb - To demand proof of the truth or rightness of.

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Try and challenge are semantically related. in test topic. In some cases you can use "Try" instead a verb "Challenge", when it comes to topics like dispute.

Nearby Words: challenged, challenging, challenger

Try

Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.

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Challenge and try are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Challenge" instead a verb "Try".

Nearby Words: tried, trying

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How words are described

good	good challenge	good try
special	special challenge	special try
common	common challenge	common try
many	many challenge	many try
Other adjectives: reasonable, single, actual, entire, real, hard, big, huge, decent, new, major, final, extra, impossible, next, last, previous.

Common collocations

power	challenge power	try power
man	challenge man	try man
people	challenge people	try people
someone	challenge someone	try someone
Other words: team, death, time, way, characters, world, player, everyone, times, friends, heroes.

Both words in one sentence

Justified as she was already starting to think it was a bad idea to try and challenge a User.

Source: Screw This, I'm Outta Here!
Technical expertise, whether it be about the workings of magic or how to fix a computer, comes easy - this talent usually prompts the character to try and challenge the limits of their mind.

Source: Intelligence
What really ticks Beasts off about this trope is the fact that they, at least, can try to challenge the role that "the Story" attempts to force upon them, but Heroes will never try and do that.

Source: Tabletop Game / Beast: The Primordial

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