GRE Vocabulary Jokes
Please enjoy some really funny comparisons of GRE and normal sentences.
(Explanations of underlined words is given at the bottom)
GRE: All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
NORMAL: All that glitters is not gold.
GRE: Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
NORMAL: Beggars are not choosers
GRE: Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony.
NORMAL: Dead men tell no tales
GRE: Neophytes' serendipity.
NORMAL: Beginner's luck
GRE: A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of small, green, biophytic plant.
NORMAL: a rolling stone gathers no moss
GRE: Members of an avian species of identical plumage tend to congregate.
NORMAL: birds of the same feather flock together
GRE: Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
NORMAL: beauty is only skin deep
GRE: Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
NORMAL: cleanliness is godliness
GRE: It is fruitless to become lachrymose of precipitately departed lactile fluid.
NORMAL: there's no use crying over spilt milk
GRE: Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.
NORMAL: spare the rod and spoil the child
GRE: The stylus is more potent than the rapier.
NORMAL: the pen is mightier than the sword
GRE: It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers.
NORMAL: u can't try to teach an old dog new tricks
GRE: Surveillance should precede saltation.
NORMAL: look before you leap
GRE: Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minim.
NORMAL: twinkle, twinkle, little star
GRE: The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.
NORMAL: he who laughs last, laughs the best
GRE: Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebetudinous fellow.
NORMAL: all work and no play makes jack a dull boy
GRE: Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting petrous projectiles.
NORMAL: people who live in glass houses should not throw stones at others.
GRE: Where there are visible vapors having their provenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.
NORMAL: where there's smoke, there's fire
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Explanations (arranged alphabetically):
Auriferous - containing gold
Avian - related to birds
Biophytic - related to consumption of living organisms
Cachinnation - laugh loudly and embarrassingly
Cadavers - corpses, remains
Carbonaceous - containing carbon
Conflagration - fire, inferno
Congeries - a jumble
Conglomerate - group, corporation, firm, organization
Congregate - assemble, gather together
Contiguous - attached, adjoining
Coruscate - flash or sparkle
Cutaneous - affecting the skin
Edifices - organizations, societies
Eschew - avoid, shun, stay away from
Grime - filth, dirt, stains
Hebetudinous - foolish and obtuse
Hedonistic - self-indulgent, pleasure seeking
Incrustations - crusts, deposits, scales
Indoctrinate - instruct, program
Interdicted - forbade, banned
Interludes - breaks, intervals
Lachrymose - sad, weepy
Lactile - resembling milk
Lithic - relating to stone
Mendicants - beggars, vagrants
Minim - as little as one drop of liquid
Necessitous - needy
Neophyte - newcomer, beginner
Petrous - stony
Plumage - fluff, group of feathers
Profundity - wisdom, depth
Provenance - origin, derivation
Pulchritude - beauty
Rapier - blade, weapon
Recipitately - like rain
Rectitude - morality, integrity
Rendering - translation, version
Resplendence - unbelievable beauty
Saltation - sudden change
Scintillate - sparkle, shine
Scion - offspring, implant
Serendipity - destiny, fate
Stylus - a hard point; a pen
Superannuated - retired, discharged
Vitiate - impair the quality
Vitreous - glassy, enamel-like
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