Chin lies below the mouth. Chin is conspicuous in making a face look beautiful or ugly. Chin sometimes reflects the overage or underage of a person. To improve cosmetic appearance, some people undergo chin augmentation surgical procedures and chin lifts and chin implants which involve manipulation of jaw bones. Thus an improved chin means an improved face profile.
As far as writers are concerned, describing a chin is a routine undertaken as a part of describing faces.
Here is a multiple choice vocabulary test based on "adjectives which describe 'chins' ".
Pl. fill in the blanks in questions 151 to 160, selecting suitable adjective phrases from the choice box, writing down answers on a slip of paper.
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Your answers need not agree with the answers in key; choice of words is an individual's trait and right.
CHOICE BOX
Adjectival phrases describing the 'chin'
Asymmetrical chin
Bum chin
Butt chin
Dimpled chin
1 Emphasized chin
2 Double chin
3 Little chin
Mustached chin
4 Noble chin
Out-thrust chin
5Piquant chin
6 Pointed chin
7 Prominent chin
Receding chin
Rounded chin
8 Rusty chin
Shaven chin
9 Sloping chin
Smooth chin
Square chin
Strong chin
10 Sullen chin
Weak chin
Well-defined chin
151. She turned her head away from them and fell into deep thought, with
her _____ chin resting on her white hand, half clenched. She was so lovely and statuesque, and looked so inspired with thoughts celestial, as she sat thus, impregnating herself with mendacity [Charles Reade in his novel 'The Cloister and the Hearth'].
152. The Dummy uttered one of his abortive sounds, much like that of an angry puma, contorted his face, and put his hand above his head, so that I had a very vivid suggestion of the lady, her _______ chin and her hat, at which all Papeete laughed. [Fredrick O'Brien in his novel 'Mystic isles of the South Seas].
153. ______ chin is an indication of fat storage and uglifies a face. ______ chin exercises may ameliorate the problem to some extent .
154. Note high head, domed above temples and wide across center of forehead; large nose; long, straight upper lip; firm mouth; _________ chin; long line from point of chin to crown of head; intense expression.[Katherine M. H. Blackford and Arthur Newcomb in their book 'Analyzing Character'].
155. The shadowy eyes under the untidy mass of red-brown hair, in
which the curls and tendrils stood out as if endowed with a magnetic life of their own; the sensitive lips; the little _______ chin; and, in the eyes and on the lips, that gently mocking, alluring smile. [Rosa Praed in 'Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land'].
156. The lips were full, and the mouth was drawn in such exquisite lines that it needed the clear-cut and __________ chin to give firmness to its beauty. [C.D. Warner in his novel 'The Golden House'].
157. A shambling and disconsolate youth, clad in a three-days' growth of beard, a checked jumper and khaki trousers, this person lounged negligently in the doorway of the waiting-room and, caressing his _____ chin with nicotine-dyed fingers, regarded the stranger in Nokomis with an air of subtle yet vaguely melancholy superiority. [L.J. Vance in his book 'The Bronze Bell'].
158. Her poor ______ chin is dissolved in the folds of her fat neck .
159. Thick as water, bursts remote
Round her ears the alien din,
While her little ______ chin
Fills the hollows of her throat:
Silent lie her slaughter'd kin.
[George Meredith in his poem 'Cassandra'].
160. But that bit about the sober gray eyes and the _______ chin Jane was responsible for. He could never forget those eyes of Jane's. He was not so certain about the chin. It might have been piquant; and then again, it might not. At any rate, it had been adorable, for it was Jane's. [Howells & Alden, Editors in their 'Quaint Courtships'].
