The test deals with adjectives which describe different types of teeth in different situations. The following is a list of such adjectives used by writers. The list is not exhaustive. I shall add more such adjectives to make the list more comprehensive and really useful to creative writers.
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LIST OF ADJECTIVAL PHRASES WHICH DESCRIBE DIFFERENT TYPES OF TEETH IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS
Artificial teeth
Canine teeth, clenched teeth, clinched tooth
Deciduous teeth
Extracted tooth
False teeth, filed teeth, fluoridated tooth, fractured tooth, fore tooth, front tooth
Glistening teeth, Gold teeth
Incisor tooth, isolated tooth
Molar teeth
Offending tooth
Painful tooth, perfect teeth, pretty teeth, primary teeth, protruding truth
Sharp teeth, Sore tooth, spaced teeth, Sweet tooth
Tender teeth, Tiny teeth
Ugly teeth, unrelenting tooth, upper tooth
Venerable teeth
Wisdom teeth
621. Thus the Cyprian goddess weeping,
Mourned Adonis, darling youth:
Him the boar, in silence creeping,
Gored with unrelenting tooth.
[Carolyn Wells in her poem 'Line by a person of Quality'].
622. Sweet tooth is not a matter of Nationality. Everybody loves confectionary.
623. Not in cries, laughter, defiancies, thrown from me when alone far in
the wilds,
Not in husky pantings through clinch'd teeth,
Not in sounded and resounded words, chattering words, echoes, dead words,
Not in the murmurs of my dreams while I sleep,
[Walt Whitman in his poem 'Not heaving from my ribbed breast only'].
624. I recall him pounding the table and exclaiming through clenched teeth, “You can't kill bicycles with B-52's!” More napkins were filled with diagrams of the Ho Chi Minh Trail and Hanoi harbor and bombed-out railroads that were being repaired over-night. [From Whitehouse.Gov, a speech of President Lyndon Johnson].
625. Strangers meeting may freely ask each other their names, provinces, and even prospects; it is not so usual as is generally supposed to inquire a person's age. It is always a compliment to an old man, who is justly proud of his years, and takes the curious form of "your venerable teeth?" but middle-aged men do not as a rule care about the question and their answers can rarely be depended upon. [Herbert A Giles in his 'Chinese Sketches'].
626. Wisdom teeth come late in life. They are genetically programed to arrive late. Humans inherited them from Neanderthal man.
627. About 20% of children have one or more primary teeth missing owing to tooth-decay.
628. Ugly teeth and plastic witch baskets, sold as children's toys may contain dangerous levels of lead.
629. Widely spaced teeth can be a temporary as well as a permanent condition. It will be a temporary condition when it is a part of normal growth and the development of adult teeth.
630. Deciduous teeth are also called baby teeth, milk teeth, primary teeth, temporary teeth.
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