Word Of The Week : Week Five

So, Word of the Week.

I'm joining in with The Reading Residence's  word of the week Linky.  Lots going on over the past couple of weeks, but a theme running through was challenge.

chal·lenge   (chăl′ənj)

n.

1.

a. A call to engage in a contest, fight, or competition: a challenge to a duel.

b. An act or statement of defiance; a call to confrontation: a challenge to the government's authority.

2. A demand for explanation or justification; a calling into question: a challenge to a theory.

3. A sentry's call to an unknown party for proper identification.

4. A test of one's abilities or resources in a demanding but stimulating undertaking: a career that offers a challenge.

5. A claim that a vote is invalid or that a voter is unqualified.

6. Law A formal objection to the inclusion of a prospective juror in a jury.

7. Immunology The induction or evaluation of an immune response in an organism by administration of a specific antigen to which it has been sensitized.

challenge (ˈtʃælɪndʒ)

vb (mainly tr)

1. to invite or summon (someone to do something, esp to take part in a contest)

2. (also intr) to call (something) into question; dispute

3. to make demands on; stimulate: the job challenges his ingenuity.

4. (Military) to order (a person) to halt and be identified or to give a password

5. (Law) law to make formal objection to (a juror or jury)

6. to lay claim to (attention, etc)

7. (Hunting) hunting (intr) (of a hound) to cry out on first encountering the scent of a quarry

8. (Veterinary Science) to inject (an experimental animal immunized with a test substance) with disease microorganisms to test for immunity to the disease

n

9. a call to engage in a fight, argument, or contest

10. a questioning of a statement or fact; a demand for justification or explanation

11. a demanding or stimulating situation, career, object, etc

12. (Military) a demand by a sentry, watchman, etc, for identification or a password

13. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) US an assertion that a person is not entitled to vote or that a vote is invalid

14. (Law) law a formal objection to a person selected to serve on a jury (challenge to the polls) or to the whole body of jurors (challenge to the array)

[C13: from Old French chalenge, from Latin calumniacalumny

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Being a parent is never going to be easy - neither is being a woman, or being disabled.  But sometimes it feels as though everything is a fight, and I'm always on the losing side.  I want to be a part of things, but it's just so hard.  So I've been challenged, and been challenging this lasdt little while.  Hopefully things are on more of an even keel now, so I can leave the distress and confusion behind and get on with living this life instead.