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Multiple choice softskills leadership

Choose the correct one

  1. Threatening

  2. Threatning

  3. Threataning

  4. No Such Word
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Threatening is the correct spelling of the present participle of 'threaten.' The word retains the 'e' before the suffix. Options B and C incorrectly drop letters, and D is incorrect since the word exists.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

Choose the correct one

  1. Questionaire

  2. Questionnair

  3. Questionare

  4. Questionnaire
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The word 'Questionnaire' is spelled with a double 'n' and ends in '-aire'. It is derived from the French word 'questionnaire'. Distractors fail by missing the second 'n' or misspelling the suffix as '-are' or '-air'.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

Choose the correct one

  1. Immediately

  2. Immediatly

  3. Immedietely

  4. Immedietly
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The correct spelling is 'Immediately'. It follows the rule of keeping the silent 'e' at the end of the root word 'immediate' before adding the suffix '-ly'. Other options incorrectly omit the 'e' or change the internal vowels.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

Choose the correct one

  1. Atrocious

  2. Atrosious

  3. Atrocsious

  4. Atroscious
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The correct spelling is 'Atrocious', meaning extremely wicked, brutal, or cruel. The suffix '-cious' is standard for this word. Options 488568, 488569, and 488570 use incorrect letter combinations to represent the 'sh' sound.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

Choose the correct one

  1. Encyclopaedia

  2. Encyclopedia

  3. Encyclopediea

  4. Encyclopeedia
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

While 'Encyclopaedia' is a valid British spelling, 'Encyclopedia' is the standard American spelling and is listed as the correct option here. The other two options are clear misspellings with extra or incorrect vowels.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

scurrilous

  1. purging or cleansing of any passage of the body

  2. (sitting or standing) straight up

  3. abusive

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

Scurrilous means abusive, insulting, or vulgar in language (from 'scurrility' = gross indecency). It describes coarse or offensive language, not cleansing.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

wean

  1. expurgate

  2. opening

  3. accustom a baby not to nurse

  4. small (often rural) community whose members share work and income
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

To wean is to accustom an infant or other young mammal to food other than its mother's milk. Expurgate (488875) means to censor, opening (488876) is a gap, and a commune (488878) is a shared community.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

grudge

  1. deep feeling of dislike

  2. deep dish for serving soup

  3. achieve by cleverness or trick

  4. abandon
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

A grudge is a persistent feeling of ill will or resentment resulting from a past insult or injury. A tureen (488880) is a soup dish, 488881 describes contriving, and abandon (488882) means to leave.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

thresh

  1. flirt

  2. seize another's power or rank (without legal authority)

  3. abnormal or deviant

  4. beat (cereal plants) with a machine or flail to separate the grains from the straw
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

To thresh is to separate grain from a plant, typically using a flail or machine. Flirt (488883) is social behavior, usurp (488884) is seizing power, and aberrant (488885) is deviating from the norm.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

undertaker

  1. funeral director

  2. determine or seek opinions, votes, etc.

  3. absorb

  4. abolish
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

An undertaker is a professional whose business is preparing dead bodies for burial or cremation and managing funerals. Canvass (488888) means to seek votes, absorb (488889) means to soak up, and abolish (488890) means to end.