Malapropism (24)

Definition: the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect 

"Bennie told himself this was nuts, yet was moved by an urge to confess the malapropism to his fourth grader" (24) 

Rebecca VAP

Coroner

Rhododendrons

Torrent

Chit

Crepuscular

Mullioned

Rebuffed

Inviolate

Sepulcher

Insidious

Ennui

Gaucherie

Provocation

Colonnade

Coroner - pg. 319

"...the coroner may put his questions in a different way."










The coroner decided whether or not the girl that had been unconscious in the hospital for two months was indeed dead.

Rhododemdrons

page 160 "the car too, drawn up behind the rhododendrons"

The rhododendrons look the prettiest in the spring.
(I like them a lot actually)

Torrent

"Then louder and faster, a driving torrent falling slantways from the slate sky, like water from a sluice" (326) 

The quiet stream became a ranging torrent after the storm.