What's the difference between a normal person and someone taking the GRE?

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: 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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