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Pompous Proverbs 1
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The following word game consists of proverbs, or old sayings, translated into pretentious, inflated language. See how many of them you can figure out. You can do these alone or with a group of friends.

Study this example first:

Missiles of ligneous or petrous consistency have the potential of fracturing my osseous structure, but appellations will eternally remain innocuous.

Translation: Sticks and stones can hurt my bones, but words can never harm me.

1
The stylus is more potent than the claymore.
2
Pulchritude possesses exclusively cutaneous profundity.
3
It is futile to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers.
4
The greatest of need is the maternal parent of the art of original contrivance.
5
A revolving lithic conglomerate accrues no lichen.
6
Everything is legitimate in matters pertaining to ardent affections and international armed conflicts.
7
The temperature of the aqueous content of a metallic receptacle under unremitting surveillance does not attain its level of evaporation.
8
Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate.
9
Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
10
It is fruitless to endure lacrimation over precipitately departed lacteal fluid.
11
Similar sire, similar scion.
12
Pulchritude reposes within the optic parameters of the perceiver.
13
Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
14
Where there are visible emissions from carbonaceous materials, there exists conflagration.
15
Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony.
16
Integrity is the superlative strategy.
17
A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques vitiate the potable concoction.
18
Eleemosynary deeds have their incipience domestically.
19
All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not, ipso facto, auriferous.
20
An addlepated individual and his specie divaricate with prematurity.
21
The ultimate entity of dried gramineous organism induces a rupture of the dorsal portion of the ship of the desert.
22
Hubris antedates a gravity-impelled descent.
23
Three quarters of a dozen individual movements by slender sewing instrument may be obviated by the utilization of a single, opportunistic thrust of said instrument.
24
Exclusive dedication to necessitous employment without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders John a hebetudinous young person.
25
Soft airs possess the potency to mitigate the anguish residual in the barbaric thorax.
26
Minuscule erudition jeopardizes security.
27
Consolidated we maintain ourselves erect; bifurcated we plummet.
28
A feathered biped in the terminal part of the arm equals the value of a brace of such creatures in densely branched shrubbery.
29
Persons deficient in judgment hasten to undertake that for which winged celestials hesitate to assume responsibility.
30
Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices of patent frangibility are advised to refrain from catapulting petrous projectiles.







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