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Multiple choice softskills leadership

excoriate

  1. scold with biting harshness

  2. one of the parts into which an enclosed space is divided

  3. pass safely through (a storm or difficult period)

  4. yield (to something overwhelming)
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'Excoriate' means to scold or criticize with biting harshness or severity. It can also literally mean to strip off skin. In usage, it describes severe verbal criticism. The other options are unrelated.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

exculpate

  1. clear from blame or guilt

  2. sympathy for the suffering of others

  3. eerie

  4. give or take milk at the breast or udder
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'Exculpate' means to clear from blame or guilt, to show someone is not responsible for something. It's often used in legal contexts to absolve someone. The other options define completely different words.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

execrable

  1. very bad

  2. harmonious

  3. of good upbringing

  4. die or kill from lack of air
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'Execrable' means extremely bad, detestable, or abhorrent. It describes something of very poor quality that's thoroughly unpleasant. The opposite would be excellent or admirable. The other options are unrelated.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

execrate

  1. curse

  2. overpowering

  3. raised mark from a beating or whipping

  4. advocate of the extension of voting rights (for women)
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'Execrate' means to curse, detest, or loathe something or someone intensely. It expresses strong hatred or abhorrence. The other options describe different concepts unrelated to this emotional verb.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

execute

  1. put into effect

  2. brief, comprehensive summary

  3. wallow (as in mud or high seas)

  4. spread through or over (with a color or liquid)
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'Execute' means to put into effect, carry out, or implement something like a plan, order, or law. In legal contexts it can mean carrying out a death sentence, but generally it means accomplishing or performing.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

executioner

  1. person administering capital punishment

  2. making up for

  3. deceive, persuade, or obtain by flattery

  4. man who is courting a woman
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An 'executioner' is a person who administers capital punishment, officially carrying out death sentences. This is the historical and primary meaning of the term. The other options are unrelated words.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

executive

  1. person having administrative authority

  2. listing of information in tabular or book form

  3. young animal (esp. of the dog or cat family)

  4. silently showing ill humor or resentment
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An executive is a person who has administrative authority or holds a position of high responsibility in an organization or government. The other options do not match this meaning: listing information in tabular form refers to a table or register, a young animal is a whelp or kitten, and showing ill humor silently is called sullen.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

executor

  1. person designated to execute the terms of a will

  2. assemble

  3. sharpen

  4. defile
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An executor is a person designated in a will to carry out or execute the terms and instructions of that will. They are responsible for administering the estate of the deceased person. The other options (assemble, sharpen, defile) are unrelated meanings.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

exegesis

  1. explanation, especially of biblical(of the bible) passages

  2. self-satisfaction

  3. puff or gust (of air, scent, etc.)

  4. (of weather) hot
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Exegesis refers to a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially of religious or biblical passages. It involves analyzing the meaning and context of scriptures. The other options are unrelated: self-satisfaction is smugness, a puff of air is a gust, and hot weather is simply described as hot or sultry.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

exemplary

  1. serving as a model

  2. trying to please

  3. sudden capricious idea

  4. act of finding the total
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Exemplary means serving as a desirable model or representing the best of its kind, like exemplary behavior or exemplary work. The other options don't match: trying to please is ingratiating, a sudden capricious idea is a whim, and finding the total is summation or calculation.