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Old 12-02-2004, 05:37 PM   #1 (permalink)
Slavakion
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Vocab Quiz!

How large and useful is your vocabulary? Try to translate these into famous sayings (like "a stitch in time saves nine", stuff like that). My score was 20/21 (missed 16)
  1. Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity
  2. Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid mimific.
  3. Surveillance should precede saltation
  4. Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate
  5. It is fruitless to become lacrymous over precipitately departed lactated fluid
  6. Neophyte's serendipity
  7. The stylus is more potent than the claymore
  8. Freedom from incrustation of grime is contiguous to divinity
  9. Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion
  10. It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers
  11. The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled container does not reach 212 degrees Fahrenheit
  12. Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony
  13. Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting petrous projectiles
  14. Where there are visible vapors having their province in ignited carbon, there is conflagration
  15. All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous
  16. Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted
  17. A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques vitiated the potable
  18. Exclusive dedication to necessary chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion render john an obtuse fellow
  19. A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no diminutive glaucous eryophitic plant
  20. A person presenting the ultimate cachinnation posesses thereby the ultimate cahinnation
  21. Missiles of ligneous or porous consistency have the potential of fracturing any osseous structure but appelations will eternally negate my abrasions.

Spoiler:
1. Beauty's only skin deep
2. Twinkle, twinkle, little start
3. Look before you leap
4. Birds of a feather flock together
5. It's useless to cry over spilt milk
6. Beginner's luck
7. The pen is mightier than the sword
8. Cleanliness is next to godliness
9. Spare the rod and spoil the child
10. It's useless to try to teach an old dog new tricks
11. A watched pot never boils
12. Dead men don't tell tales
13. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
14. Where there's smoke, there's fire
15. All that glitters is not gold
16. Beggars can't be choosers
17. Too many cooks spoiled the soup
18. All work and no play makes John a dull boy
19. A rolling stone gathers no moss
20. He who laughs last laughs longest/best
21. Sticks ans stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me
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