The Bad Weather Friend

by Dean Koontz

comforting aroma filled the room, he looked around, trying to decide whether or not the kitchen might be too white. The ceiling was “eggshell

inculcating

Inculcate

home to Beverly Hills for Thanksgiving with Rudyard and Sally Bromley,

chrestomathy

adroit

hoi polloi

escutcheon

mortise

harridan

grommet,

dogma

bouillabaisse.

jackstraw

nullity.

dipsomaniac,

souillon,

vituperation,

ameliorate

oriflamme

conifers

reconnoitered

dudgeon,

chitinous

excoriating

subsumed

unassailable.

hector

ululant

magnanimity.

surcease.

saltpeter

mezzanine,

mawkish

legerdemain

susurrant

assignition.”

jejunity.

quotidian

funereal