We can say that forehead is the index of the face. Forehead, may sometimes, reflect the advanced age of a person or the tragedies he had undergone: eg. a 'furrowed forehead'. There is a procedure in cosmetic surgery, called 'forehead lift' which improves the cosmetic appearance of a forehead by flattening/softening deep-frown-lines between the brows.
Here is a muliple choice vocabulary test based on adjectives describing a forehead.
Pl. fill in the blanks in questions 241 to 250, selecting apprpriate adjective phrases from the Choice Box, noting answers on a piece of paper. Only the italicized phrases have been used in the test.
If you feel a need, you can compare your selections with the key: Click.
Your answers need not tally with the key; because: selecting a word is always an individual's prerogative. But, please observe: how the classical writers used the adjectives and compare them with the current usage.
CHOICE BOX
Ample forehead
Bald forehead
Brown forehead
Delicate forehead
Enlarged forehead
Fastidious forehead
Feathered forehead
Flat forehead
Frowned forehead
Furrowed forehead
Hot forehead
Large forehead
Lifted forehead
Lofty forehead
Long forehead
Low forehead
Pale forehead
Peeling forehead
Pretty forehead
Receding forehead
Screaming forehead
Tacked forehead
Tattooed forehead
241. If Britney Spears appears in a shopping arcade with a _______ forehead, it becomes a sensation. .
242. Nobody takes notice of a lame begger with a deeply ________ forehead, sitting at the gate of a Church.
243. Of resurrection? Is the east
Afraid to trust the morn
With her __________ forehead?
As soon impeach my crown! [Emily Dickinson in her unnamed poem'.]
244. Is ___ forehead a sign of beauty in a girl?
245. The order of the patron saint of Moscow, and the glittering stars of other nations which sparkled on his green uniform, told how well he had laboured for the interest of all other countries except his own; but his clear, pale complexion, his delicately trimmed mustachio, his _____ forehead, his arched eyebrow, and his Eastern eye, recalled to the traveller, in spite of his barbarian trappings, the fine countenances of the Aegean, and became a form which apparently might have struggled in Thermopylae. [The Earl of Beaconsfield in his novel 'Vivian Grey'].
246. Under the man-hole squatted old Toadie. The light bathed his hunched shoulders, his ________ forehead, his projecting teeth. [Alfred Ollivant
in his novel 'The Gentleman'].
247. There is an impression that males can have ____ foreheads and women cannot. .
248. Over that _____ forehead white
The thousandth year returneth.
Still, on its commanding height,
With a fierce and blood-red light,
The fiery token burneth.
[Lord Macaulay in his poem 'THE MARRIAGE OF TIRZAH AND AHIRAD'].
249. Is an unusually _____ forehead an impediment to sexual attractiveness? .
250. She had an enormous head, with the masculine yet ________ forehead of the Jupiter of Phidias, and gray eyes, to which her chaste life, penetrating fully into them, carried a flood of light. The features of her round face, formerly fresh and rosy, were at one time swollen by the small-pox, which destroyed the velvet texture of the skin, though it kindly left no other traces, and her cheek was still so soft and delicate that her mother's kiss made a momentary red mark upon it. [Honore de Balzac in his novel 'Eugenie Grandet'].
250A. A mother had to sport a ________ foreheadwith the name of a gambling site, to earn the school fee of her son. How does it reflect on the global education system?
