Last Updated On: 21 December, 2005
Common proverbs have been recast in rather pleonastic language (do you know
what pleonastic means?). Determine the underlying proverb in each case.
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- Persons of imbecilic mentality navigate in parameters which cherubic entities
approach with trepidation.
- Elementary sartorial techniques initially applied preculde repetitive similar
action to square of three.
- Apostatize degrees of antagonism to banish awareness of the specified interval
of time.
- Alacrity assembles prodigality.
- Prepotency eludes the chicane.
- One diminutive yielding cupuled nut, the prodigious quercus stems forth.
- An esteemed paramour is effortless forfeit rather than brought into being.
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- It is futile to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with
innovative maneuvers.
- Surveillance should precede saltation.
- One should hyperaesthetically exercise macroscopy upon that situs
which one will eventually tenant if one propels oneself into the troposphere.
- The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled
saucepan does not reach 100 degrees Celsius.
- All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
- Everything that coruscates with effulgence is not aurous.
- Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
- Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
- Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices would be advised
to refrain from catapulting petrous projectiles.
- Individuals who perforce are constrained to be domiciled in vitreous
structures of patent frangibility should on no account employ petrous
formations as projectiles.
- The stylus is more potent than the claymore.
- Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of
hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebetudinous fellow.
- Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate.
- Where there are visible vapors in ignited carbonaceous materials,
there is conflagration.
- A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques vitiate
the potable concoction produced by steeping certain comestibles.
- A superabundance of talent skilled in the preparation of gastronomic
concoctions will impair the quality of a certain potable solution made by
immersing a gallinaceous bird in ebullient Adam’s ale.
- Selecting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
- Eleemosynary deeds have their incipience intramurally.
- The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the
optimal cachinnation.
- Abstention from any aleatory undertakings precludes a potential
escalation of lucrative nature.
- Missiles of ligneous or petrous consistency have the potential of
fracturing my osseous structure, but appellations will eternally remain
innocuous.
- It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitately departed
lacteal fluid.
- Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony.
- Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.
- A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of a small,
green bryophitic plant.
- Neophyte's serendipity.
- That prudent avis which matutinally deserts the cosiness of its abode
will ensnare a vermiculate creature.
- Do not dissipate your competence by hebetudinous prodigality lest you
subsequently lament an exiguous inadequacy.
- An addlepated bonehead and his specie divaricate with startling
prematurity.
- It can be no other than a maleficent horizontally propelled current of
gaseous matter whose portentous advent is not the harbinger of a modicum of
beneficence.
- Aberration is the hallmark of homosapiens, while longanimous
placability and condonation are the indicia of supramundane omniscience.
- Persons of imbecilic mentality navigate in parameters which cherubic entities
approach with trepidation.
- Elementary sartorial techniques initially applied preculde repetitive similar
action to square of three.
- Apostatize degrees of antagonism to banish awareness of the specified interval
of time.
- Alacrity assembles prodigality.
- Prepotency eludes the chicane.
- One diminutive yielding cupuled nut, the prodigious quercus stems forth.
- An esteemed paramour is effortless forfeit rather than brought into being.
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Now for a long killer . . . Can you simplify the following???
A research team proceeded towards the apex of a natural
geologic protuberance, the purpose of their expedition being
the procurement of a sample of fluid hydride of oxygen in a
large vessel, the exact size of which was unspecified. One
member of the team precipitously descended, sustaining severe
damage to the upper cranial portion of his anatomical structure;
subsequently the second member of the team performed a self
rotational translation oriented in the same direction taken
by the first team member.