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Multiple choice softskills leadership

ejaculation

  1. exclamation

  2. burn (a wound or snakebite, etc.) with hot iron or caustic substance to stop bleeding and prevent infection

  3. compelling immediate action

  4. temporary stay
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Ejaculation means a sudden, forceful exclamation or utterance. It refers to an abrupt and emphatic verbal expression of emotion or thought. The term describes a quick, often passionate spoken statement that bursts forth unexpectedly.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

elaborate

  1. work out carefully

  2. procession of riders or horse-drawn carriages

  3. bearlike

  4. comfort in sorrow or trouble
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Elaborate means to develop, present, or explain something in great detail and with careful consideration. It suggests taking a basic idea and expanding it thoroughly, adding complexity and nuance. The process involves meticulous planning and thorough execution.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

elaboration

  1. addition of details

  2. casual and offhand

  3. act or manner of using

  4. repair or make whole by using a metal alloy
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Elaboration refers to the process of adding more details, information, or complexity to something. It involves expanding on an idea by providing more specific and comprehensive elements. The term suggests enriching content through careful addition of nuanced information.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

elastic

  1. able to spring back into shape

  2. quibble

  3. seize another's power or rank (without legal authority)

  4. nonstandard grammatical construction
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Elastic describes something that can return to its original shape after being stretched or compressed - like a rubber band. The other options (quibble, seize power, nonstandard grammar) are unrelated definitions.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

elated

  1. filled with excited joy and pride

  2. yield (title or territory) to (esp. after losing a war)

  3. lending money at illegal high rates of interest

  4. seriousness
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Elated means experiencing intense happiness and pride, typically from good news or an achievement. The distractors (cede territory, usury, seriousness) define completely different words.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

elegy

  1. poem or song expressing lamentation (for the dead)

  2. speed

  3. ideal place, state, or society

  4. entreat
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An elegy is a poem or song mourning someone's death, expressing grief or lamentation. The other options (velocity, utopia, entreat) are unrelated literary or general terms.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

elevation

  1. elevated position

  2. heavenly

  3. excessively submissive or devoted to one's wife

  4. lawyer in the lower court of law
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Elevation refers to an elevated position or height above a reference point, like the elevation of a mountain. The distractors (heavenly, uxorious, lower court lawyer) define unrelated concepts.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

elicit

  1. draw out fact or information (by discussion or from someone)

  2. abstaining from sexual intercourse

  3. waver (in opinion)

  4. anxious
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To elicit means to draw out information, facts, or responses from someone through questioning or discussion. The distractors (celibacy, waver, anxious) describe unrelated concepts - note that elicit is often confused with 'illicit'.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

elixir

  1. cure-all

  2. place for burying the dead

  3. empty

  4. talking to oneself (esp. in a play)
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An elixir is a magical or medicinal potion believed to cure all ailments - a 'cure-all' or 'panacea'. The distractors (cemetery, empty, soliloquy) are unrelated words.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

ellipsis

  1. omission of words from a text

  2. (in ancient Rome) overseer of morals (also taking the census)

  3. wanderer (without a permanent home)

  4. state of being alone
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Ellipsis refers to the omission of words from a text or speech that are understood from context, often marked by three dots (...). The distractors (census officer, wanderer, solitude) describe unrelated concepts.