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Multiple choice softskills leadership

agape

  1. belief that life is basically bad or evil

  2. narrow valley with steep sides

  3. openmouthed

  4. slavish
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Agape means with mouth open, often in surprise or wonder. Belief that life is evil is 'pessimism,' a narrow valley is 'gorge,' and slavish is 'servile.'

Multiple choice softskills leadership

agenda

  1. causing plague

  2. destroy completely

  3. items of business at a meeting

  4. slavery
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Agenda refers to a list or plan of items to be discussed or accomplished at a meeting. It comes from Latin meaning 'things to be done'. Option C correctly identifies this meaning. The other options are unrelated words that could appear in similar contexts (plague, destruction, slavery) but are not definitions of agenda.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

agglomeration

  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

aggrandize

  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

aggregate

  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

aghast

  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

agility

  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

agitate

  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

agnostic

  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

agog

  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.