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Do you recognize these well known adages?
1.All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
ANS: All that glitters is not gold.
2.Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
ANS: Beggars cannot be choosers.
3.Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony.
ANS: Dead men tell no tales.
4.Neophyte's serendipity.
ANS: Beginner's luck
5.A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of small,
green, biophytic plant.
ANS: A rolling stone gathers no moss.
7.Members of an avian species of identical plumage tend to congregate.
ANS: Birds of a feather flock together.
8.Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
ANS: Beauty is only skin-deep.
9.Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
ANS: Cleanliness is next to godliness.
10.It is fruitless to become lachrymose of precipitately departed
lacteal fluid.
ANS: Don't cry over spilt milk.
12.Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.
ANS: Spare the rod and spoil the child.
13.The stylus is more potent than the rapier.
ANS: The pen is mightier than the sword.
14.It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated
canine with innovative maneuvers.
ANS: You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
15.Surveillance should precede saltation.
ANS: Look before you leap.
16.Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minim.
ANS: Twinkle twinkle little star
17.The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses
thereby the optimal cachinnation.
ANS: One who laughs the last, laughs the best.
18.Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes
of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebetudinous fellow.
ANS: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
19.Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous edifices would
be advised to refrain from catapulting petrious projectiles.
ANS: Those who live glass houses should cast no stones.
20.Where there are visible vapors having their provenance
in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.
ANS: Where there is smoke, there is fire.
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