Question

As used in line 55410, challenged most nearly means-

• A. Dared
• B. Required
• C. Disputed with
• D. Competed with

Answer 1

The correct option is A Dared

They jumped up like popcorn, he said, describing how they would flap their half-formed wings and take short hops into the air. So when a group of graduate students challenged him to come up with new data on the age-old ground-up-tree-down debate, he designed a project to see what clues might lie in how baby game birds learned to fly.

This ststement explains he gets motivated that how half formed wings and take short hops and fly into the air. when he was given a challenge for age old ground up tree down debate by graduate students. This challenge was taken by him as a dare and he designed a new project how baby birds learn to fly.

The other options are irrelevant to the context.

Hence the correct answer is A.