Here is a Multiple Choice test in adjectives which can be used for describing a face. Though this list has many adjectives, for the purpose of setting questions, I have selected only ten adjectives, which are shown in Italics.
Pl. fill in the blanks with the best adjective you chose and compare with the adjective used by the Classic Writer in his Work. Thereafter, if you feel need, pl. check the answers at: mcquesansyb.blogspot.com/search/label/#2368.
LIST OF ADJECTIVES WHICH CAN BE USED IN DESCRIBING FACES
Baby face, bold face
Cleancut face, contorted face
Dead face, dissipated face, downcast face
expressionless face
fair face
familiar face
fierce face
fighting face
flat face
freightened face
granitic face
hideous face
honest face
hot face
indifferent face
iron face
little face
mortal face
furrowed face
blood-stained face
pale face
poker face
pretty face
purple-colored face
radiant face
rough face
ruddy face
sallow face
smiling face
square face
stained face
swollen face
trim-chiseled face
weatherbeaten face
wry face
yellow face
671. His was a long lean ______ face,
He sat with half-shut eyes,
Like an old sailor in a ship
Becalmed 'neath tropic skies.
[Walter de La Mare in his poem 'The Keys of Morning.]
672. His youth drank in the lessons of his race,
Which stamp'd their impress on his _______ face.
[James Fairfax McLaughlin in his poem 'The American Cyclops']
673. "No, he seems to be a common sailor; he is working, and is dressed in
old clothes--all dirty. And such a __________ face, too. He seems to
have fallen--so low." [Morgan Robertson in his 'The Wreck of the Titan'].
674. His _____ face was paler, his hair thin and ragged as though chunks had been torn out from time to time. [Alan Edward Nourse in his book 'Problem'].
675. O, take this warm kiss on thy pale cold lips.
These sorrowful drops upon thy _____________ face,
The last true duties of thy noble son! [William Shakespeare in his 'The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus'.]
676. Even as the sun with _______________ face
Had ta'en his last leave of the weeping morn,
Rose-cheek'd Adonis tried him to the chase;
[William Shakespeare in his 'Venus and Adonis'].
677. "...Mr. Gray was thirty-eight, and tall and slender and handsome, a little bald in front, alert, quick in his movements, business-like, prompt, decided, unsentimental, and with that kind of _____________ face that just seems to glint and sparkle with frosty intellectuality!" [Mark Twain in his novel 'A Dog's tale'].
678. Grumpy Weasel made a ___ face, as if he did not care to have anybody speak of Mr. Meadow Mouse as a friend of his. And he did not quit the stone wall until he had seen Mr. Meadow Mouse venture forth in safety. [Arthur Scot Bailey in his book 'The Tale of Grumpy Weasel']
679. The man approached the conference table in the center of the room with measured pace and gravely ______________ face. The rose-tinted machine on his left did a couple of impulsive pirouettes on the way and twittered a greeting to Meg and Roger.
[Fritz Reuter Leiber in his 'Bread Overhead'].
680 "...And when at last, with sad, ___________ face,
I walk in narrow pathways patiently;
Forgetful of thy beauty, and thy truth,
Thy ringing laughter, thy rebellious grace..."
[Olive Custance in his poem 'In praise of youth'.]
