Voice links a human with other humans. If a person is dumb, facial gestures have to assist in communication, which becomes arduous. In real life also, voice often functions like an asset for a person to accomplish the minor and major tasks and goals of life. A person with a resonant or a mellifluous voice with clear pronunciation is likely to attract listeners.
Fiction writers describing faces, use 'voices' as effective tools to express the moods in which the characters were placed at that particular moment.
Here is a multiple choice vocabulary test based on adjective phrases which describe 'voices'.
Pl. fill in the blanks in questions 191 to 200, selecting suitable phrases from the Choice Box, noting down your answers on a piece of paper.
Thereafter, if you feel a need, you can compare your answers with the key: Click.
Your answers need not tally with the key, as choice of words is always a question of personal prerogative.
CHOICE BOX
ADJECTIVAL PHRASES DESCRIBING 'voices'
Angry voice
Anguished voice
Bass voice
Cheerful voice, Cheery voice
Choked voice
Clear voice
Commanding voice
Croaking voice
Desperate voice
Distinctive voice
Dull voice
Faint voice
Familiar voice
Far-reaching voice
Genial voice
Girlish voice
High-pitched voice
Hoarse voice
Hollow voice
Loud voice
Lovely voice
Low voice
Masculine voice
Melodious voice
Murmering voice
Muted voice
Natural voice
Panickstricken voice
Ponderous voice
Purred voice
Querulous voice
Remarkable voice
Serious voice
Shriek voice
Slow voice
Soft voice
Spiritual voice
Squeaky voice
Steady voice
Strange voice
Suffocating voice
Sweet voice
Tearful voice
Tender voice
Trembling voice
Tremendous voice
Troubled voice
191. We may suffer from a _______ voice when we inhale 'Helium" gas.
192. If _________ voices are silenced by force, terrorism may sometimes result.
193. We hear ______ and _______ voices in Airports and Railway Stations.
194. A ____ voice does not enhance the personality of a person.
195. _________ voice disorders in female can be corrected through surgical procedures.
196. A child usually recognises the ________ voice of its mother in its fourth month.
197. ________ voices are often unintelligible .
198. A beggar cannot speak in a __________ voice.
199. Use of a _______ voice in a comic situation, often arouses laughter.
200. Her _____ voice is barely audible.
