Today's multiple choice question test deals with vocabulary associated with boyfriends.
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441. She watched his retreating figure with eyes that grew slowly misty;
he had been such a jolly comely boy-friend, and they had had such
good times together. The mist deepened on her lashes as she looked round at the familiar rendezvous where they had so often kept tryst since the day when they had first come there together. [Saki in the novel 'The Unbearable Bassington'].
Comely = a)tall b)pleasing c)flamboyant d)curt.
442. There are persons in the world whose comradeship can still transmute the baser metal of commonplace scenes and experiences into the purest gold of romance for me. [John Burrows in 'My Boyhood'.]
Transmute = a)deface b)change form c)dumb d)chance stance
443. And I told him I had a crow to pick with HIM because he had the kind of brain that would be content to let a Jap beat him in his own school, in his own language and in his own country; so we made an engagement to
fight to a finish, and it ended by his becoming the only boy friend I have and the nicest boy friend a girl ever had, I am very sure. That's why I'm here. [Gene Stratton-Porter in 'Her father's daughter'.]
Crow to pick = a)to state and adjust a difference b) to fight out c)to scamper d) to scurry
444. I pondered Ann's fate, the cause of her sudden vanishing from the ken of her boy-friend; and presently I blamed myself for letting the past over-ride the present [Max Beerbohm in his 'Seven Men'.]
Ken = a) relationship b) narration c) memory d) view
445. "But I am interested in him dreadfully," she continued. "In a way
he is my protege. Then, too, he is my first boy friend - but not exactly friend; rather protege and friend combined. Sometimes, too, when he frightens me, it seems that he is a bulldog I have taken for a plaything, like some of the 'frat' girls, and he is tugging hard, and showing his teeth, and threatening to break loose." [Jack London in his 'Martin Eden'.]
Protege = a) mentor b) mentee c) peer d) preceptor
446. When a rascal boyfriend neglects to call, the girl friend has to find avenues to blow off her steam.
To blow off steam = a) to unnerve b) to satisfy her passion c) to show her love off d) to give vent to pent up emotion
447. Slurping noodles with a cute boy friend may be blissful. When the friend turns out to be promiscuous, real agony will start.
To slurp = a) eat/drink noisily b) eat/drink silently c) eat/drink in haste d) eat/drink slowly
448. A boyfriend who chucks out his dearest, to lead a monastic life is like a person who throws away gold and retains shells.
Chuck out = a) discord b) discard c) discern d) discept
449. Assaulting boy friends can be a source of great harrassment and agony.
To assault = a) attack b) rape c) attack and/or rape d) attack/rape/murder
450. Girl friends present homemade gifts to boy friends. They get distraught by the promiscuity of their boy friends after the initial euphoria. The gifts with the boys should torment them, if they have hearts.
Distraught = a) mad b) get distracted c) lose trust d) get distended
