Cluttered

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  1. tar paper
    a heavy paper impregnated with tar and used as part of a roof for waterproofing
    On the collapsing roof, neat gray shingles gave way to drooping tar paper.
  2. barrel-shaped
    having the general shape of a barrel
    Behind that wall, a barrel-shaped container.
  3. clutter
    a confused multitude of things
    She told Mary Jo Santagate, a teachers’ aide at her school, that she disliked the house’s clutter and wished that her husband had not kept their dead cat frozen in their refrigerator: she dreaded opening it to cook.
  4. drowse
    sleep lightly or for a short period of time
    On the rare occasions Mr. Nichols appeared, he would be sitting in his car in the driveway, drowsing or reading the paper or maybe doing nothing at all.
  5. laid-back
    unhurried and relaxed
    “A lovely woman, just very laid-back.
  6. detritus
    loose material that is worn away from rocks
    Six months later, a clean-out crew delving into the detritus found a hollow-sounding false wall in the basement.
  7. sear
    become superficially burned (also figurative)
    Neighbors marveled at the tools and gadgets he had amassed through his job at I.B.M. and his evening shifts in the Sears hardware department, including six lawn mowers.
  8. delve
    turn up, loosen, or remove earth
    Six months later, a clean-out crew delving into the detritus found a hollow-sounding false wall in the basement.
  9. amass
    collect or gather
    Neighbors marveled at the tools and gadgets he had amassed through his job at I.B.M. and his evening shifts in the Sears hardware department, including six lawn mowers.
  10. eat at
    become ground down or deteriorate
    He told the police that they had eaten at a local restaurant with another couple the night before, and had come home after an argument.
  11. hoarding
    a large, flat, outdoor sign for advertisements or notices
    But even two weeks after the body of Ms. Nichols was found, it was hard, on this street, to comprehend the idea that along with his tools and his trash, James Nichols had been hoarding his wife the whole time.
  12. oddity
    eccentricity that is not easily explained
    Only to a next-door neighbor and close co-workers did Ms. Nichols hint that her husband’s oddities bothered her, too.
  13. quirk
    a strange attitude or habit
    Then there were his quirks.
  14. idyllic
    charmingly simple and serene
    She gave her nieces’ and nephews’ days an idyllic cast, Mr. Miller recalled, taking them to pick fruit before going back to the house to make preserves and pies.
  15. shingles
    eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia
    On the collapsing roof, neat gray shingles gave way to drooping tar paper.
  16. knack
    a special way of doing something
    There was his sense of humor, so dry it could be caustic, and his almost perverse knack for making people ill at ease.
  17. slump
    fall or sink heavily
    When he was found dead in December, slumped in a chair inside his home in this Hudson Valley town, there was no will to be found, only masses of decaying books, cameras and computers.
  18. droop
    sink or settle from pressure or loss of tautness
    On the collapsing roof, neat gray shingles gave way to drooping tar paper.
  19. hatchet
    a small ax with a short handle used with one hand
    There was the afternoon Denise Darragh asked him to help her with an injured squirrel, and he — still wearing his suit jacket — killed it with a hatchet as the children playing in her yard screamed.
  20. filth
    any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant
    It sounds like he was right where he should’ve been, miserable and living in filth.
  21. cult
    a system of religious beliefs and rituals
    He told the police he believed she had left to join a religious cult or had killed herself; to neighbors he simply announced, flatly, that she had left him.
  22. loop
    anything with a round or oval shape
    He rode around the neighborhood on a lawn mower, once using it to move the couple’s book collection from their first house on Stephanie Lane, the looping street just behind Vassar Road, to their second on Vassar Road.
  23. blunt
    not sharp (used of a knife or other blade)
    She had died, the county medical examiner said, of blunt-force trauma to her head.
  24. hollow
    not solid; having a space or gap or cavity
    Six months later, a clean-out crew delving into the detritus found a hollow-sounding false wall in the basement.
  25. on the other hand
    (contrastive) from another point of view
    He, on the other hand, was very different.
  26. bound
    confined by bonds
    Inside the container, a black garbage bag bound with rope.
Created on 七月 16, 2013

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