Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu.

Read the excerpts and look at the underlined words.


A. (7) After getting a handle on what a particular work is about, the next step is for the director and design team to discuss possible challenges.


B. (12) ...Although she likes the ease of collaborating with colleagues with whom she's previously worked, she particularly likes "projects that I don't know anything about to challenge myself," she said.


What is the part of speech and meaning of each form of the word challenge?


In excerpt A, challenges is used as ____________

1. a noun and means an interesting or difficult task

2. an adjective and means difficult to achieve

3. a verb and means to work together on a difficult task


In excerpt B, challenge is used as ___________

1. an adjective and means difficult to achieve

2. a verb and means to purposely try and difficult tasks

3. a noun and means a request for an explanation