GRE English vs Common English

[dkumar]

GRE STUDENT : Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting perilous projectiles.
A NORMAL PERSON : People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
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GRE STUDENT : Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minim.
NORMAL PERSON : Twinkle, twinkle, little star
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GRE STUDENT: All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
NORMAL PERSON : All that glitters is not gold.
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GRE STUDENT : Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
NORMAL PERSON : Beggars are not choosers
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GRE STUDENT : Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony.
NORMAL PERSON : Dead men tell no tales
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GRE STUDENT : Neophyte's serendipity.
NORMAL PERSON : Beginner's luck
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GRE STUDENT : A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of small, green, biophytic plant.
NORMAL PERSON : A rolling stone gathers no moss
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GRE STUDENT: Members of an avian species of identical plumage tend to congregate.
NORMAL PERSON : Birds of a feather flock together
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GRE STUDENT : Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
NORMAL PERSON : Beauty is only skin deep
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GRE STUDENT : Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
NORMAL PERSON : Cleanliness is godliness
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GRE STUDENT : It is fruitless to become lachrymose of precipitately departed lactile fluid.
NORMAL PERSON : There's no use crying over spilt milk
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GRE STUDENT : It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers.
NORMAL PERSON : You can't try to teach an old dog new tricks
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GRE STUDENT : Surveillance should precede saltation.
NORMAL PERSON : Look before you leap
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GRE STUDENT : The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.
NORMAL PERSON : He who laughs last, laughs best
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GRE STUDENT : Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebetudinous fellow.
NORMAL PERSON : All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
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GRE STUDENT : Where there are visible vapours having their provenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.
NORMAL PERSON : Where there's smoke, there's fire!

[abhishek]

superb

[vichitra]

ABSOLUTELY COOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!
(when i was taking my GRE n studying the word list n sometimes when i tried talking to my friends using those words they used to tell me "plz speak in english ,we don't understand gibberish" )

[sansanwalamit]

funny but harsh on someone like me who is going to write his exam within a fortnight and still finds some unfamiliar words in the joke..................

[rahulgochhwal]

really really cool (cudnt find the substitutes for these words in GRE english).......
This post surely conjured up the old memories of rattofying those wretched and unending lists..

[yajuvender]

"Two individuals proceeded towards the apex of a natural geologic protuberance, the purpose of their expedition being the procurement of a sample of fluid hydride of oxygen in a large vessel, the exact size of which was unspecified. One member of the team precipitously descended, sustaining severe damage to the upper cranial portion of his anatomical structure;subsequently the second member of the team performed a self rotational translation oriented in the same direction taken by the first team member."


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The Answer.......(in simple English what does this translate to??)
"Jack and jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water Jack fell down and broke his crown and jill came tumbling after!!!"

[neha_grewal]

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLL