Tag: softskills

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Multiple choice softskills leadership
  1. tool for mashing or grinding substances in a hard bowl or mortar

  2. strongly opposed to social or political change

  3. collection

  4. separate

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Agglomeration means a collection or mass of things gathered together in one place. It describes the process or result of gathering into a mass or cluster. Option C captures this meaning accurately. Option A describes a pestle, B refers to conservative ideology, and D is the opposite of collection.

Multiple choice softskills leadership
  1. turn to stone

  2. kingdom

  3. make greater

  4. harshness

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Aggrandize means to make greater, more powerful, or more important. It typically refers to increasing someone's status, power, or wealth, often through exaggeration or unjustified means. Option C correctly defines this. The other options refer to petrification (A), political domains (B), and harshness (D).

Multiple choice softskills leadership
  1. trivial

  2. one who harvests grain

  3. sum

  4. navigation tool used to determine a ship's latitude and longitude (by measuring the altitudes of stars)

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

As a noun, aggregate means a sum total or whole formed by combining several elements. It can also refer to a material or structure formed from loosely compacted masses. Option C correctly provides 'sum' as the definition. Option A is an antonym, B describes a harvester, and D describes a sextant.

Multiple choice softskills leadership
  1. touchy

  2. return of part of a payment

  3. filled with great surprise or fear

  4. crude cabin

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Aghast means 'filled with great surprise or fear' (horror). 'Touchy' is testy, and 'return of part of a payment' is a rebate.

Multiple choice softskills leadership
  1. formation of infantry carrying overlapping shields and long spears

  2. reject bluntly

  3. nimbleness

  4. chain

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Agility means the ability to move quickly and easily, or nimbleness of body and mind. It refers to physical dexterity, mental quickness, or both. Option C correctly identifies this meaning. Option A describes a phalanx formation, B means to spurn, and D is a chain.

Multiple choice softskills leadership
  1. pertaining to the Pharisees, who paid scrupulous attention to tradition

  2. scold harshly

  3. stir up

  4. slight difference in degree

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Agitate means to stir up, provoke, or cause movement - either physically (shaking) or emotionally (causing unrest). It can also mean to campaign for some cause. Option C correctly captures the core meaning of stirring up action or feeling. Option A is pharisaic, B is berating, and D is nuance.

Multiple choice softskills leadership
  1. Pharisee: member of an ancient Jewish group that emphasized strict observance of the Mosaic law (considering themselves very holy)

  2. representation of words in the form of pictures or symbols

  3. one who is skeptical of the existence or knowability of a god or any ultimate reality

  4. pretend

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

An agnostic is someone who believes that the existence of God or ultimate reality is unknown or unknowable. Unlike atheists who deny God's existence, agnostics maintain that such knowledge is impossible to attain. Option C accurately defines this position. Option A describes Pharisees, B is pictograph, and D means to pretend.

Multiple choice softskills leadership
  1. observable facts

  2. refutation

  3. highly excited

  4. (place or scene of) complete disorder or ruin

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Agog means in a state of excitement, eager anticipation, or high interest. When someone is 'all agog,' they are intensely curious or excited about something. Option C correctly identifies this meaning. Option A is data, B is refutation, and D is chaos.

Multiple choice softskills leadership
  1. faithless lover

  2. disobedient or resisting authority even after being punished

  3. pertaining to land or its cultivation

  4. imaginary remote paradise on earth

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Agrarian means relating to cultivated land, farming, or the management of agricultural land. It describes things pertaining to the cultivation of soil and production of crops. Option C correctly provides this definition. Option A is an inconstant lover, B is recalcitrant, and D is utopia.

Multiple choice softskills leadership
  1. lover of mankind

  2. disclaim or disavow

  3. of air

  4. fragment generally of broken pottery (glass, clay bowl, or cup)

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Airy means of, relating to, or resembling air. While commonly used to describe well-ventilated spaces or delicate casualness, its literal meaning is simply 'of air' - made of air or having the qualities of air. Option C is technically correct. Option A is philanthropist, B is disclaim, and D is shard/pottery fragment.