GRE student vs. Normal Person

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

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



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

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

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

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

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

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



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

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

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




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

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

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

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.



--------------------GRE를 공부하다보면 가끔 한국어로도 모르는 단어를 외워야 할 때가 있었다. 오랜만에 이 글 찾아보니 머리에 단어를 우겨넣었던 그 시절 추억이 새록새록 -_-;