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Multiple choice softskills leadership

crux

  1. small drawing placed at the beginning or end of a chapter

  2. make or become shrunken and wrinkled (often by drying)

  3. essential or main point

  4. one who without authority assumes law enforcement powers
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The correct answer is C because 'crux' refers to the essential or main point of something - the core issue that determines the outcome. Option A describes a vignette (a small illustration), Option B means shriveled (dried and wrinkled), and Option D refers to a vigilante (someone claiming police powers without authority). The crux of an argument or problem is its central, decisive point.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

crypt

  1. active strength

  2. shake uncontrollably

  3. secret recess or vault usually used for burial

  4. small drawing placed at the beginning or end of a chapter
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The correct answer is C because 'crypt' specifically means a secret recess or vault, typically underground, used for burial (like beneath a church). Option A refers to vigor (active strength), Option B describes convulsive shaking, and Option D defines a vignette (small decorative drawing). Crypts are architectural spaces for interring the dead.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

cryptic

  1. despicable

  2. mix together

  3. mysterious

  4. active strength
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The correct answer is C because 'cryptic' means having a hidden or ambiguous meaning, mysterious, or obscure. Option A means contemptible (despicable), Option B refers to commingling (mixing), and Option D describes vigor (active strength). Cryptic messages are deliberately puzzling or enigmatic.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

cubicle

  1. slander

  2. keep away from

  3. small chamber used for sleeping or work

  4. despicable
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The correct answer is C because 'cubicle' refers to a small compartment or partially enclosed space, typically for sleeping or work. Option A means slander (defamation), Option B means to shun or avoid, and Option D refers to something contemptible (despicable). Office cubicles are partitioned workspaces.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

cue

  1. clear from blame

  2. move (a railway train) from one track to another

  3. word or signal (as in a play to prompt another actor's speech or entrance)

  4. slander
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The correct answer is C because 'cue' in theater means a signal, word, or action that prompts an actor's speech, entrance, or performance. Option A means to exonerate (clear from blame), Option B refers to switching railroad tracks, and Option D means slander (defamation). Actors wait for their cue to speak or move.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

culinary

  1. wine merchant

  2. brother or sister

  3. relating to cooking or kitchen

  4. disposed to revenge
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The correct answer is C because 'culinary' means relating to cooking, the kitchen, or food preparation. Option A refers to a vintner (wine merchant), Option B means sibling (brother/sister), and Option D describes being vengeful (disposed to revenge). Culinary arts and culinary schools focus on cooking skills.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

cull

  1. break (a law)

  2. prophetic

  3. pick out from others (to kill the weakest members)

  4. wine merchant
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The correct answer is C because 'cull' means to select and remove from a group, especially the weakest or unwanted members (like culling a herd). Option A means to violate or infringe (break a law), Option B means prophetic (foretelling), and Option D refers to a vintner (wine merchant). Culling improves quality by removing inferior specimens.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

cumbersome

  1. highly skilled artist (esp. in music)

  2. sediment deposited by running water (at the entrance to a harbor or by a bend in a river)

  3. heavy and awkward to carry or wear

  4. goodness
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The correct answer is C because 'cumbersome' means heavy, bulky, and awkward to handle, carry, or wear. Option A refers to a virtuoso (highly skilled artist), Option B describes alluvium (sediment deposited by water), and Option D means virtue (goodness). Cumbersome objects are burdensome and clumsy to manage.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

cumulative

  1. (of a disease or poison) extremely harmful or poisonous

  2. monkeylike

  3. growing by addition

  4. highly skilled artist (esp. in music)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The correct answer is C because 'cumulative' means increasing by successive additions - growing or building up over time. Option A refers to virulent (extremely harmful), Option B means simian (monkeylike), and Option D describes a virtuoso (skilled artist). Cumulative knowledge or effects accumulate gradually.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

cunning

  1. disease communicator

  2. comparison of one thing with another, using the word like or as

  3. clever in deceiving

  4. (of a disease or poison) extremely harmful or poisonous
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The correct answer is C because 'cunning' means clever at achieving goals through deceit or evasion - skillfully deceptive. Option A refers to a carrier (disease transmitter), Option B describes a simile (comparison using like/as), and Option D means virulent (extremely poisonous). Cunning people are crafty and sly.