This is Why I didn’t take up GRE !!
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.
NORMAL PERSON : Twinkle, twinkle, little star
GRE STUDENT: Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minim.
NORMAL PERSON : All that glitters is not gold.
GRE STUDENT: All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
NORMAL PERSON : Beggars are not choosers
GRE STUDENT: Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
NORMAL PERSON : Dead men tell no tales
GRE STUDENT: Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony.
NORMAL PERSON : Beginner's luck
GRE STUDENT:Neophyte's serendipity.
NORMAL PERSON : A rolling stone gathers no moss
GRE STUDENT: A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of small, green, biophytic plant.
NORMAL PERSON : Birds of a feather flock together
GRE STUDENT: Members of an avian species of identical plumage tend to congregate.
NORMAL PERSON : Beauty is only skin deep
GRE STUDENT: Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
NORMAL PERSON : Cleanliness is godliness
GRE STUDENT: Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
NORMAL PERSON : There's no use crying over spilt milk
GRE STUDENT: It is fruitless to become lachrymose of precipitately departed lactile fluid.
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.
NORMAL PERSON : Look before you leap
GRE STUDENT: Surveillance should precede saltation.
NORMAL PERSON : He who laughs last, laughs best
GRE STUDENT: The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.
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.
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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