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Multiple choice softskills leadership

emissary

  1. agent (sent on a mission to represent another)

  2. clergyman attached to a chapel

  3. deserving high respect

  4. squabble
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Explanation

An emissary is a representative or agent sent on a mission to negotiate, deliver messages, or represent someone else's interests. Option A precisely defines this role. Option B describes 'chaplain', C describes 'estimable', and D describes 'bicker'.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

emollient

  1. soothing or softening remedy (for the skin)

  2. make or become black by burning

  3. revere

  4. sudden flood or rush
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Explanation

An "emollient" is a preparation or remedy that softens or soothes the skin. Distractors like "make or become black by burning" (char) or "sudden flood" (deluge) do not match.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

enrapture

  1. please intensely

  2. indirect or roundabout expression (by using an uncecessarily large number of words esp. when trying to avoid answering a difficult question directly)

  3. parish priest

  4. speak with involuntarily pauses or repetitions
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Explanation

To enrapture means to give intense pleasure or delight to someone, filling them with joy or fascination. Option A correctly identifies this meaning. Option B describes 'circumlocution', C describes 'parson', and D describes 'stammer' or stutter.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

ensconce

  1. settle comfortably

  2. limit

  3. experienced as if one were taking part in the experience of another

  4. step on heavily (so as to crush or extinguish)
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Explanation

To ensconce means to establish or settle oneself in a comfortable, safe, or secure place. Option A captures this sense of comfortable settling. Option B describes 'confine', C describes 'empathize' or 'vicarious', and D describes 'trample'.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

ensue

  1. follow (as a result)

  2. prudent

  3. change (esp. from good to bad)

  4. sudden frenzied rush (of panic-stricken animals or people)
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Explanation

To ensue means to happen or occur afterward or as a result. Option A correctly identifies this as a consequence that follows. Option B describes 'discreet', C describes 'deteriorate', and D describes 'stampede'.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

entail

  1. make necessary

  2. outwit

  3. food

  4. stop or check flow of blood
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Explanation

To entail means to involve something as a necessary or inevitable part or consequence. Option A correctly captures this sense of necessity. Option B describes 'outsmart', C describes 'sustenance' or provisions, and D describes 'staunch' or stem bleeding.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

enterprise

  1. willingness to take new ventures

  2. reservoir or water tank

  3. contend

  4. condition of no movement or activity
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Explanation

Enterprise refers to readiness to engage in daring or difficult undertakings, or the initiative and willingness to take on new ventures. Option A accurately defines this sense of adventurous initiative. Option B describes 'cistern' or tank, C describes 'compete', and D describes 'stagnation'.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

enterprising

  1. full of initiative

  2. fortress

  3. keeping watch (during normal sleeping hours)

  4. division of a poem (composed of two or more lines)
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Explanation

Enterprising means having or showing initiative and resourcefulness, willing to undertake new projects. Option A correctly identifies this adjective form. Option B describes 'bastion' or stronghold, C describes 'vigil', and D describes 'stanza' in poetry.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

enthrall

  1. capture

  2. quote

  3. watchful

  4. move suddenly or involuntarily
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Explanation

Enthrall means to captivate, hold spellbound, or fascinate someone completely. 'Capture' in this context means capturing attention or interest, which is the closest synonym among the options. The other options - quoting, being watchful, or jerking suddenly - are unrelated to the concept of holding someone fascinated.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

entice

  1. lure

  2. having to do with citizens

  3. one who without authority assumes law enforcement powers

  4. formal
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Explanation

Entice means to attract, tempt, or lure someone, usually by offering something appealing or advantageous. 'Lure' is a perfect synonym meaning to attract or entice. The other options relate to citizenship (civil), unauthorized law enforcement (vigilante), or formality, none of which relate to attraction or temptation.