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Multiple choice softskills leadership

regatta

  1. boat or yacht race

  2. boasted

  3. affectedly grand

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

A regatta is a boat or yacht racing event, typically involving sailing vessels. These are organized competitive events, often social occasions, with boats racing according to specific rules.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

relic

  1. someone who can make his or her voice seem to come from another person or thing (without moving lips or jaws)

  2. ghastly

  3. affectedly grand

  4. surviving remnant (from an extinct culture)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

A relic is a surviving remnant or object from a past culture, often with historical or religious significance. These are typically physical objects preserved for their connection to important people or events.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

vigor

  1. deprived of (something valuable)

  2. walking at an easy unhurried pace

  3. active strength

  4. climb by crawling with difficulties
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Vigor refers to physical strength and good health, or effort and enthusiasm. 'Active strength' is a precise definition. 'Bereft' means deprived, and 'scramble' means to climb with difficulty.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

progeny

  1. children

  2. free from worries

  3. additional object

  4. simultaneous discharge of a number of shots
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Progeny refers to the descendants of a person, animal, or plant; offspring or children. 'Additional object' refers to an adjunct, and 'volley' refers to the discharge of shots.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

imbibe

  1. drink in

  2. opening in chess in which a piece is sacrificed

  3. affecting or relating to the sense of taste

  4. worthless products of an endeavor
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

To imbibe means to drink (alcohol) or to absorb ideas/knowledge. 'Drink in' is the literal definition. 'Gambit' is the chess opening mentioned, and 'gustatory' relates to taste.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

idiosyncrasy

  1. place for burying the dead

  2. individual trait usually odd in nature

  3. affecting or relating to the sense of taste

  4. low, guttural, menacing sound (as of a dog)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

An idiosyncrasy is a mode of behavior or way of thought peculiar to an individual; an odd trait. 'Cemetery' is for burying the dead, and 'gustatory' relates to taste.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

indiscriminate

  1. choosing at random

  2. spacious

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

  4. make friendly again (after quarrel)
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Indiscriminate means done at random or without careful judgment. 'Choosing at random' is the closest definition. 'Spacious' means roomy, and 'catalyst' is the chemical agent described in option 489341.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

"Taken for dead" means ___.

  1. to be incorrectly listed as dead

  2. sentenced to die

  3. assumed to be dead

  4. to be allowed to visit a person before they die
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

To be 'taken for dead' means that people have observed a person and assumed they are deceased, usually due to lack of movement or severe injury. It is a synonym for 'presumed dead'.

Multiple choice softskills leadership

If you don't like it you can just ___ it.

  1. open

  2. change

  3. lump

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

The idiom 'lump it' is used in the phrase 'like it or lump it,' meaning you must accept a situation whether you like it or not. 'Open', 'change', or 'excuse' do not fit this specific idiomatic structure.