Shoulders relect physique of individuals. Weak or narrow shoulders can reflect frail health and can affect the cosmetic appearance of a person. Sometimes, shoulders freeze and movements become stiff and awkward.
Here is a multiplce choice vocabulary test based on adjective phrases which describe 'shoulders'.
Pl. fill in the blanks in questions 101 to 110, selecting suitable phrases from the Choice box, noting down your answers on a slip.
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CHOICE BOX
ADJECTIVAL PHRASES DESCRIBING 'SHOULDERS'
Angular shoulders
Bare shoulders
Broad shoulders
Deformed shoulder
Dusty and bloody shoulders
1 Frozen shoulders
2 Heaving shoulders
Heavy shoulders
3 High shoulders
Little shoulders
Low shoulders
Massive shoulders
Mighty shoulders
4 Narrow shoulders
5 Plump shoulders
Round shoulders
Serried shoulders
6 Shining shoulder
Shoved shoulders
7 Slanted shoulders
Square shoulders
Stiff shoulders
8 Stooped shoulders
9 Stripped shoulders
Stript shoulders (variant of stripped shoulders, used by William Wordsworth and Charles Lamb)
Strong shoulders
10 Thin shoulders
101. So shows the ring
Seen from behind round a conjurer
Doing his pitch in the street.
____ shoulders, low shoulders, broad shoulders, narrow ones,
Round, square, and angular, serry and shove;
While from within a voice,
Gravely and weightily fluent,
Sounds; and then ceases; and suddenly
(Look at the stress of the shoulders!)
Out of a quiver of silence, [William Ernest Henley in his poem 'Clinical'].
102. ______ shoulders are nothing but stiff shoulders.
103. Then the light shone clear again and he saw the broken, twisted nose; and the eyes that stared obstinately from their split lids; and the gaping, grinning mouth that, years ago, the torturers had cut wide upon each seared and tattooed cheek; and the swollen, split lips that could not hide where once had been a tongue. He passed his hand along the shroud and lightly touched the ugly hump where the spine had been pressed and snapped, and the _______ shoulders and the twisted hips and legs. [EDWIN PARTRIDGE LEHMAN JULIAN PARK in 'Anthology of William's College'].
104. When she got into the mist she shivered a little, and drew her thin shawl tighter about her ____ shoulders, and, with one of the choruses still ringing in her ears, she walked in the direction of the Strand. [George Moore in his novel 'A Mummer's wife'].
105. The pictorial evidence of her ________ shoulders and upper body prove her anorexial tendencies.
106. For again thy naked feet I see,
And thy sweet sleek arms so kind to me.
Through thy rent kirtle once again
Thy _______ shoulder showeth plain.
[William Morris in his poem 'Poems By the way'].
107. Here the shadow slid along and up the wall; peering around the edge of the door, Pendleton saw a man with massive, _______ shoulders and a great square head, covered with thick, iron-gray hair; and instantly he recognized him as the man whom they had seen that night in the doorway of Locke's workshop. John T. McIntyre in his novel [Ashton-Kirk, Investigator].
108. "Oh, you poor soul!" cried the girl, hovering over Mrs. Morton, and
putting an arm across her broad, _____ shoulders. "Don't cry--don't, don't cry! I'm _sure_ the girls will come back. They are foolish to run away; but surely they will be glad to get back to their dear, dear homes." {Annie Roe Carr in 'Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays'].
109. Irish glanced that way and caught them grinning; caught them pointing derisively, with _______ shoulders. He swore a great oath and made for them, calling aloud that he would knock those grins so far in that they would presently find themselves smiling wrong-side-out from the back of their heads.
[B. M. Bower in his novel 'Flying U Ranch'].
110. Evelina, without seeming to notice the gesture, threw back the
jacket from her ______ shoulders. [Edith Wharton in his novel 'Bunner Sisters'].
