Wednesday, March 1, 2017

The Difference between Normal English and GRE (Graduate Record Examinations) English


A NORMAL PERSON :
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
GRE STUDENT :
Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting perilous projectiles.

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NORMAL PERSON :
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
GRE STUDENT :
Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minim.

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NORMAL PERSON :
All that glitters is not gold.
GRE STUDENT :
All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.

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NORMAL PERSON :
Beggars are not choosers
GRE STUDENT :
Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.

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NORMAL PERSON :
Dead men tell no tales
GRE STUDENT :
Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony.

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NORMAL PERSON :
Beginner's luck
GRE STUDENT :
Neophyte's serendipity.

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NORMAL PERSON :
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
GRE STUDENT :
A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of small, green, biophytic plant.

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NORMAL PERSON :
Birds of a feather flock together.
GRE STUDENT :
Members of an avian species of identical plumage tend to congregate.

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NORMAL PERSON :
Beauty is only skin deep.
GRE STUDENT :
Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.

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NORMAL PERSON :
Cleanliness is godliness.
GRE STUDENT :
Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.

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NORMAL PERSON :
There's no use crying over spilt milk.
GRE STUDENT :
It is fruitless to become lachrymose of precipitately departed lactile fluid.

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NORMAL PERSON :
You can't try to teach an old dog new tricks.
GRE STUDENT :
It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers.

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NORMAL PERSON :
Look before you leap.
GRE STUDENT : Surveillance should precede saltation.

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NORMAL PERSON :
He who laughs last, laughs best.
GRE STUDENT :
The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.

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NORMAL PERSON :
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
GRE STUDENT : Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebetudinous fellow.

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NORMAL PERSON :
Where there's smoke, there's fire!
GRE STUDENT :
Where there are visible vapours having their provenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.

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