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Multiple choice softskills leadership

deflect

  1. turn aside

  2. agent which brings about a chemical change while it remains unaffected and unchanged

  3. subordinating the individual to the state

  4. drug that relieves pain or trouble
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Deflect means to cause something to change direction, turn aside, or glance off a surface. It can be physical or metaphorical (deflecting criticism). The other options are unrelated definitions.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

defoliate

  1. destroy leaves

  2. slingshot

  3. having the weight of authority

  4. consecrate
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Defoliate means to deprive a plant of its leaves, either naturally or artificially (as with herbicides in warfare). Option A is the core meaning. The other options are unrelated words.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

defray

  1. provide for the payment of

  2. great waterfall

  3. having absolute unchecked power

  4. abnormal
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Explanation

To "defray" means to provide money to pay for a cost or expense. Distractors like "great waterfall" (cataract) or "having absolute unchecked power" (autocratic) are incorrect.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

defrock

  1. strip a priest or minister of church authority

  2. calamity

  3. mechanism that imitates actions of humans

  4. irregularity
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Defrock means to formally remove a priest or minister from their religious office and authority, often as punishment. It's specifically religious in context. The other options are unrelated terms.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

deft

  1. neat

  2. shout of disapproval or displeasure (made at the theater or a sports match)

  3. self-governing

  4. state of being nameless
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Deft means skillful, quick, or neat in one's movements or actions. It describes dexterity and cleverness. The other options define unrelated terms.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

defunct

  1. dead

  2. book for religious instruction in question-and-answer form

  3. examination of a dead body

  4. hostility
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Defunct means no longer in existence, use, or operation - effectively dead or finished. It can apply to organizations, laws, or people. The other options are completely unrelated.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

degenerate

  1. become worse in quality

  2. without exceptions

  3. offering or providing help

  4. precede
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Degenerate means to decline from a higher to a lower state, becoming worse in quality, character, or morality. It can be a verb or adjective. The other options define unrelated terms.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

degradation

  1. humiliation

  2. provide food and drink (for)

  3. great mass of falling snow and ice

  4. preceding events that influence what comes later
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Explanation

Degradation can mean the state of being humiliated or debased, making 'humiliation' (A) the correct answer. The other options describe completely unrelated concepts - providing food/drink is hospitality, a snow mass is an avalanche, and preceding events are antecedents.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

delusive

  1. deceptive

  2. speed

  3. solemn wonder

  4. substance that prevents infection in a wound
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Explanation

Delusive means deceptive or misleading, making 'deceptive' (A) the correct answer. The other options are unrelated - speed is rapidity, solemn wonder is awe, and an infection-preventing substance is an antiseptic.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

delve

  1. dig

  2. heavenly

  3. terrible

  4. contrast
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Delve means to dig or reach into, making 'dig' (A) the correct answer. The other options are unrelated - heavenly refers to the sky/divine, terrible means very bad, and contrast means difference.