Wednesday, June 02, 2010

This is why I didn't take up GRE

Have you tried to give the paper for GRE? This is what happens when you study too hard:

 

 

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.  

 

 

And that’s why I did not take up GRE!