Sentence:  She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the <WSD>grotesquerie</WSD> of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The quality of being grotesque or macabre.