challenge vs exact

challenge

verb
  • To be difficult or challenging for. 

  • To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines). 

  • To dare (someone). 

  • To invite (someone) to take part in a competition. 

  • To call something into question or dispute. 

  • To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter. 

  • To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it. 

  • To make a formal objection to a juror. 

  • To dispute (something). 

noun
  • The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency. 

  • An antagonization or instigation intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not. 

  • A bid to overcome something. 

  • The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator, or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity. 

  • An act of seeking to have a certain person be declared not legally qualified to vote, made when the person offers their ballot. 

  • The act of a sentry in halting a person and demanding the countersign, or (by extension) the action of a computer system demanding a password, etc. 

  • A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons. 

  • A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty. 

  • An attempt to take possession; a tackle. 

  • An attempt to have a work of literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum. 

  • The opening and crying of hounds upon first finding the scent of their game. 

  • A judge's interest in the result of a case, constituting grounds for them to not be allowed to sit the case (e.g., a conflict of interest). 

exact

verb
  • To make desirable or necessary. 

  • To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way. 

  • To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce. 

adj
  • Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual. 

  • Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one. 

  • Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect. 

  • Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict. 

adv
  • exactly 

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