GRE vocabulary fun #1

I do not believe word-smithery to be a personal gaucherie.  ¶  So as a simple act of raillery, and being quite a martinet, thus thinking I must prove that I’m no dilettante, I present to you my threnody: 

I shall miss thee Quimby, my non-quotidian quetzal.
I’m not pleased you fell prey to my pettish parrot, Pretzel.
And Pretzel, though you were full of calumnies, which I found to be quite comedy,
Your wit was simply no match for my churlish cat, the aptly-named Miss Chastity.
And you, miss cat, had you not always been so torpid, you would have gotten out of the trash-pile
before my father torched it.

And that is how my four friends came to be a turbid smear of none. What’s left of them is but a black, burned heap, and their picture in my talisman.  ¶  This turgid little post has served a purpose and been fun. Admittedly, prolixity, inspiring dictionary use in everyone. And as my words did not peregrinate, I surely shall not abnegate, if anything I’ll venerate, getting my vocabulary studying done.