Spectacles have become an inseparable parts of faces in the modern civilisation. Spectacles were said to have been invented in 1284. It is said that spectacles of early vintage were made of a crystal stone called beryl. In some countries and in some civilisations, wearing spectacles was in the past treated as a sign of old age and people felt ashamed if they had to wear them at an early age.
Writers describing faces of middle aged persons have often to describe spectacles, using suitable adjective phrases which reflect the characteristics which he wants the characters to possess. For the purpose, there is a need to strengthen the vocabulary base of the writers.
Here is a multiple choice vocabulary test based on adjective phrases which describe 'spectacles'.
Pl. fill in the blanks in questions 211 to 220, 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
ADJECTIVE PHRASES DESCRIBING SPECTACLES
Antique spectacles
Bifocal spectacles
Big-rimmed spectacles
Big spectacles
Black-rimmed spectacles
Black spectacles
Blue spectacles
Clumsy spectacles
Copper spectacles
Cross-polarized spectacles
Designer spectacles
Dirty spectacles
Discount spectacles
Fashion spectacles
Gold-bowed spectacles
Gold-rimmed spectacles
Gold spectacles
Green spectacles
Green-tinted spectacles
Hexameter spectacles
Horn-rimmed spectacles
Horn-rimmed secretarial spectacles
Huge spectacles
Iron spectacles
Large spectacles
Magnifying spectacles
Luminous spectacles
Neutral-tinted spectacles
Non-sideshield spectacles
Prescription spectacles
Prescription Sports spectacles
Protective spectacles
Red spectacles
Rose-colored spectacles
Round spectacles
Safety spectacles
Sexy spectacles
Silver spectacles
Steel-rimmed spectacles
Strapped spectacles
Titanium-framed spectacles
Tortoise-shell rimmed spectacles
Tortoiseshell spectacles
Winged spectacles
Wireframed spectacles
211. "And so," returned she, "we have parted
with the colt, and have only got a gross of _____ spectacles, with
copper rims and shagreen cases? A murrain take such trumpery! [Oliver Goldsmith in his novel 'The Vicar of Wakefield'].
212. It seemed furnished almost exclusively by the Minister, who sat with knees crossed, in a pair of large round _____________ spectacles, which did not, however, veil the keenness of his eyes. He was a man with close cropped grey hair, a broad, yellow, clean-shaven face, and thrusting grey eyes. [John Galsworthy in his novel 'The burning spear'].
213. Benjamin Franklin invented the _______ spectacles in 1840.
214. He wears the sun helmet and pagri, the ______________ spectacles, and the white canvas Spanish sand shoes of the modern Scotch missionary: but instead of a cheap tourist's suit from Glasgow, a grey flannel shirt with white collar, a green sailor knot tie with a cheap pin in it, he wears a suit of clean white linen, acceptable in color, if not in cut, to the Moorish mind. [George Bernard Shaw in his play 'Captain Brassbound's Conversion'].
215. "You might as well give me a pair of ____ spectacles!" "Very good," says our overseer, taking 'em away again, "you won't get anything else
here." .
216. The Queensland State in Australia has a Spectacles Supply Scheme to supply free ____________ spectacles to eligible Citizens.
217. At the next table at dinner--in a beautiful old room with green matting on the floor and a huge open fireplace--sat an old gentleman with white hair
and bright eyes behind very ________ spectacles, and from the tone in which he talked to the waiter they guessed him to be an American. [E.V. Lucas in his novel 'The Slow Coach'].
218. ______________ spectacles cannot ensure safety.
219. The ______ spectacles of the 1950s had elongated outer corner edges.
220. _______ spectacles have to function simultaneously as protective spectacles also.
