Atrocious – Noun
“The Yellow Wallpaper” By Chaelotte Perkins
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/atrocious
Passage: I am sitting by the window now, up in this atrocious nursery, and there is nothing to hinder my writing as much as I please, save lack of strength
Now that I know the meaning of the word. I can now visualize this picture a lot better. I can see that the nursery is a scary and evil place.
