The difference between normal english and GRE english via Nitisha Kamath 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.