Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

by Gail Honeyman

paan

savoir-faire,

elocution,

I couldn’t believe it. All that work, I was so close, so close now, and she was throwing me out on the street again? After everything I’d shared, all the things I’d uncovered, was about to keep uncovering? I threw the tissue on the floor. “Go to hell,” I said quietly.

Obscenity is the distinguishing hallmark of a sadly limited vocabulary.

comme il faut

devil-may-care

assiduously.”

acrimonious

J. D. Salinger

Weltschmerz,

anomie,

demerits

abominable.

dissembler

unbidden.

comeuppance

inclement

anathema

recondite

forlorn

Praetorian

uncherubic

High time.

insolent,

derisive.

strop.