Last one...probably

OMG I'm ready for the GRE to be over. Until then, rejoice - this is my last vocabulary post.

There are an awful lot of words in this language of ours, which thankfully gives us the ability to be periphrastic. The meaning of a few of them will be expatiated in this post. Of course, that's not to be confused with expiate, which I will do for boring y'all right after Saturday - If you fulminate against another vocab post, I apologize.
Anyway, most of the words in our language, it seems, have to do with praise or blame. Want to scold someone? Just give them a good upbraiding. Burke does call humans the inventor of the negative, so maybe that makes sense. Abjure is related to that. It's to denounce formally, such as from the throne. Very exciting. Abstemious STEMS from abstain (ahaha)
Apothegms are always limpid, which never sounds to me like a good thing but actually is. Pithy prose is limpid, people, not turgid! The GRE teaches valuable life lessons....with such knowledge, how could the test not be a benison, you might ask? Well, I'll tell ya: if universities became contumacious and revolted tomorrow, I'd be a happier person. Incidentally, I think there's a children's book about Benison the bison, so I can never remember what the damn word means. Grr.

One of the things about winter - it's cool, it's crisp, it dries your skin out. It's very important to use emollients to protect your skin and keep it soft for cuddling. With Mr. Gregory Crane, my future husband.

Speaking of Mr. Crane, our wedding is really going to be something else. Hopefully Mike Gravel will read an encomium - he is, after all, the one responsible for bringing us together. We will walk through the ingress to the place we get married arm in arm, no longer gauche at the sight of each other. Is our marriage internecine? We will kill each other, and then ourselves? No one can know. (There's an interesting story about the etymology of internecine and good ol' Samuel Johnson, who was OCD, by the way, at the link above.)
I hate the words lassitude and lissome. To me, lassitude sounds like a lass with an attitude - in short, sassy. Lissome, on the other hand, sounds like listless, tired, without much energy. Wrong on both accounts. Lassitude means without energy. Lissome is lithesome - flexible, limber. Like a gymnast. Learn something new?

Really, why would vexillology be on the GRE? Seriously, the study of flags? Maceration usually has to do with wine making, and allowing liquids to seep into each other, but it also means to starve. FYI.
Pall is a dark cloth used to cover something, and to annoy - as in, this post is beginning to pall on me. I guess.

Debate makes people disputatious - prone to disputing. (I'm done linking... this is wearing thing.)

A tributary is a stream that flows to a larger stream of water.

A malinger is one who maligns - who speaks untruths about.

Someone lugubrious is gloomy. Booo. Kinda what it sounds like.

Forbear - to refrain from

Abscond is one of those words you know in context, but never use yourself - to sneak off in secret. To abscond with the stolen goods.

This post, in the end, is nugatory - there's little to no importance in me writing it. I'm just wasting time and bandwidth.

Iniquity - immoral. no e makes inequity just flat out immoral. It's amazing what the lack of an e can do. I feel enmity toward the e in inequity for bailing and leaving us with sin. My strong feelings almost make me vertiginous.

This post sucks the most, sorry about that, might not even be worthy of a post, but, well, it's written, so maybe you learned some new scrabbable words. Peace.