Multiple Choice Questions in Diction
731 to 740
using three letter words starting with "Y"
yak (To talk profusely),
yap (To bark sharply, shrillly),
yaw (To deviate, deflect),
yen (To yearn),
yex (To hiccup, belch),
yip (To give a short, sudden cry, in high pitch)
yok (To laugh boisterously),
yow (To howl),
yuk (To joke/laugh exuberantly).
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731.
The shrill "___! Yip!" of the range rose above the thunder of hoofs as twenty ponies jumped to a run. [H.H. Knibbs in his 'Jim Waring of Sonora Town'>
732.
The film director ______ about his forthcoming films for three hours.
733.
Nowadays, students ___ ceaselessly in class rooms.
734.
It is common in Indian villages, to hear street dogs _______.
(Classic Writers who used this word: George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Joseph Conrad, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle et al).
735.
Just in time I blow my horn, and your boat she ___ a little. Then I see you come all down. Eh, wha-at? [Rudyard Kipling (1836) in his 'Captains-Courageous'].
736.
The dogs which ___ may not bite.
737.
She ______ to become a doctor, she became an actor.
738.
The child ______ when it saw a giraffe.
739.
People ___ when they consume pungent food.
740.
People may ___ when they see a cobra in the bed room.
