A neck-tie is also called a 'cravat' a word of Croatian origin. The word necktie can be written in two ways: 1. Hyphenated compound word: neck-tie. 2. Single word: necktie.
Here is a Multiple Choice Vocabulary Test based on Adjectives Describing 'neckties'. Pl. fill the blanks in questions 281 to 290 selecting the words from the Choice Box, noting down answers on a slip of paper. If you feel need, you can compare your answers with the key: Click.
Your answers need not tally with the Key, as choice of adjectives and adverbs is a question of personal preferences.
CHOICE BOX
All too tight neck-tie, Assertive tie, Awfully obvious necktie
Black neck-tie, Blue neck-tie
Crimson neck-tie
Dashing crimson neck-tie, Dashing neck-tie, Decent necktie, Defiant neck-tie, Dingy neck-tie, Dingy white neck-tie
Elaborate tie
Faded neck tie, Fiery neck-tie, Fine necktie, Frazzled necktie
Garish neck-tie, Gorgeous necktie,
Imaginary neck-tie
Loose black neck-tie, Loose neck-tie
Narrow neck-tie, Narrow silken neck-tie
Pink necktie
Sky blue neck-tie, Soiled necktie, Soiled white necktie, Starched neck=tie, Streaked neck-tie
Tattered necktie
Variegated neck-tie, Voluminous necktie
White neck-tie
Woollen neck-tie
281. The ______ neck-tie and hatband were replaced by discreet black. He acquired the attitudes and gestures of his employer in a few days. [John Paris in his novel 'Kimono'].
282. In the midst of the reading of a hymn a brown, stately dame would sweep up the aisle with a world of airs, with nothing in the world on but a "stovepipe" hat and a pair of cheap gloves; another dame would follow, tricked out in a man's shirt, and nothing else; another one would enter with a flourish, with simply the sleeves of a bright calico dress tied around her waist and the rest of the garment dragging behind like a peacock's tail off duty; a stately "buck" Kanaka would stalk in with a woman's bonnet on, wrong side before--only this, and nothing more; after him would stride his fellow, with the legs of a pair of pantaloons tied around his neck, the rest of his person untrammeled; in his rear would come another gentleman simply gotten up in a _____ neck-tie and a striped vest.
[Mark Twain in his novel 'Roughing It'].
283. The Italian hero entered that beautiful palace, where a grand company of the nobility were waiting to receive him, attired in a rough gray
overcoat and trousers, a large pork-pie hat, a ___________ neck-tie, and a red flannel shirt. [Grace Greenwood in his book 'Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood'].
284. He wore a clerical suit, with a ___________ neck-tie; the skin about his throat hung in deep folds, and the folds were filled with an unpleasing grey stubble. [Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch in his novel 'True Tilda'].
285. But the fact is, W'isky was jealous o' ME"--and the little wretch
actually swelled out like a turkeycock and made a pretense of adjusting an _________ neck-tie, noting the effect in the palm of his hand, held up before him to represent a mirror. [Ambrose Bierce in his novel 'Can such things be'].
286. The nearest person was a young man of eighteen, or perhaps more, with an incipient, straw-colored mustache, and a shock of hair of tow-color. This
young man wore a __________ neck-tie, a stiff standing-collar, and a suit of clothes in the extreme of fashion. [Horatio Alger in his novel 'Errand Boy'].
287. This ragged and untidy old man might have been taken for a beggar, had not his dirty fingers and his _____ neck-tie, whose original color was hardly discoverable, flashed with brilliants of an unusual size, and had not the arms emblazoned upon the door of his chair, in spite of the dust and dirt, betrayed a noble rank. [Louise Muhlbach in his novel 'The Daughter of an Empress'].
288. Miss Ada Bell welcomed Clarence in the most affectionate manner, assisted him to remove his coat, unfastened his _______ neck-tie, and smoothed down his glossy black hair; then, warming a napkin, she wrapped it round his benumbed hands, and held them in her own until the circulation was restored and they were supple and comfortable again. [Frank J. Webb in his novel 'The Garies and their friends'].
289. Edith apostrophized him to her fashionable friends as "a real genius," leaving a dim impression upon their minds of flowing locks, a shiny velvet jacket, slouched hat, _______ neck-tie and a general air of disreputable pretentiousness. Geniuses of the foreign type were never, in the estimation of fashionable New York society, what you would call "exactly nice," and against prejudices of this order no amount of argument will ever prevail.[Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen in his 'Tales From Two Hemispheres'].
290. His hat was a fine panama with a broad black ribbon; his frock-coat was of thin cloth, plain, dark, and altogether civilized; his light trousers were cut gaiter-fashion, and strapped under the instep; his small boots were patent-leather, and of the ordinary type. There was nothing poetic about his attire except a reasonably wide Byron collar and a rather _______________ neck-tie, well suited to his dark complexion. [John William De Forest in his novel 'Overland'].
290A. I see by your clothes and ________ necktie that you are mighty poor; and you can't afford to turn down the offer. Well, when do you want to begin? [O Henry in his novel 'Strictly Business'].
