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exotic

Meaning

Originating in or characteristic of a distant foreign country; strikingly unconventional and interesting.

Examples by difficulty

Basic: Simple, everyday vocabulary — the easiest to read.

She stepped off the plane, the air thick with the smell of spices she'd never encountered. Everything here felt so new, so unlike home. The vibrant colors and the quick, sing-song language were exciting and a little scary. This place was truly exotic, a world away from what she knew.

The strange, iridescent fruit pulsed with a faint light, smelling of ozone and something like burnt sugar. It was clearly exotic, not like anything found at the local market. The scientist felt a thrill of discovery, holding the truly unconventional and interesting find.

The desert traveler paused, his eyes wide at the sight. A creature, unlike anything he'd ever imagined, emerged from the dunes. Its feathers shimmered with colors that felt from another world, and its song, a series of clicks and whistles, was utterly strange. He knew, without a doubt, this animal was exotic.

My pet parrot, Reginald, is a real show-off. He struts around like he owns the place, with feathers in colors I didn't know existed. He's from a faraway land, which makes his loud squawks and even louder personality so strikingly unconventional and interesting.

Barnaby the badger sported a wig made of dried noodles, an outfit he claimed was exotic, originating from a distant land where spaghetti grew on trees and hedgehogs wore tiny sombreros. His dance moves, a frantic flurry of wiggles and twirls, were indeed strikingly unconventional and interesting, baffling all the local squirrels.

Normal: Standard, everyday language.

She clutched the worn map, her heart pounding with anticipation. The bazaar buzzed with a thousand unfamiliar scents and sounds, a whirlwind of colors she'd only dreamed of. Everything felt so incredibly exotic, a thrilling departure from her quiet life back home, utterly strange and completely captivating.

The intricately carved wooden bird, with its iridescent feathers and haunting call, felt utterly exotic. It was a relic from a land barely imagined, unlike anything they’d ever seen in their quiet village, sparking a thrilling sense of wonder.

The air in the marketplace hummed with unfamiliar spices, each scent a vibrant clue to wares from faraway lands. She’d never seen such colors, such strange, intricate carvings. Everything felt incredibly, wonderfully exotic, a welcome jolt from her predictable routine.

Barnaby, sporting a pineapple-shaped hat and a parrot on his shoulder, truly embodied the spirit of the exotic. He'd arrived from a place so far away, his socks were likely knitted by actual llamas, and his stories were so outlandish, they made a circus clown seem a tad dull.

My cousin's toucan, Bartholomew, has an absolutely exotic collection of bottle caps. He insists they were pilfered from a clandestine international smuggling ring of sentient garden gnomes. The sheer variety, from shimmering alien alloys to what Bartholomew claims is solid moon cheese, makes them strikingly unconventional and interesting.

Advanced: Richer vocabulary that stretches an upper-level reader.

The traveler stared, wide-eyed, at the vibrant market. Silks in hues he’d never seen, spices that assaulted his senses, and music that pulsed with an unfamiliar beat; it was all so completely exotic, a world away from the predictable streets of his homeland, truly unlike anything he had imagined.

The intricately carved, exotic wooden mask, a relic from a land Alex had only read about, felt strangely warm to the touch. Its stark, angular features, unlike anything local, hinted at rituals and beliefs entirely alien, sparking a primal curiosity that jolted him from his routine existence.

The aroma of starfruit and roasted durian filled the bustling market, a smell so *exotic* it made the mundane reality of his office job feel impossibly distant. Every stall offered something strange, vibrant, a world away from his predictable life.

Bartholomew's pet llama, Percival, arrived with a magnificent, *exotic* flair, its fleece patterned like a psychedelic disco ball. He insisted Percival hailed from a mountain range visible only during a rare lunar eclipse, a truly unconventional origin story that left Bartholomew’s neighbors utterly bewildered.

The renowned explorer, Bartholomew "Barty" Buttercup, claimed his prize was a truly exotic creature: a capybara meticulously adorned with tiny, sequined sombreros. Its origin, he insisted, was a previously uncharted jungle populated solely by sentient, mariachi-playing hedgehogs, a strikingly unconventional and interesting hypothesis that baffled the scientific community.

Challenging: Rare, high-register vocabulary for serious word lovers.

The marketplace hummed with an energy I'd never known, a cacophony of languages and scents. I fingered a bolt of crimson silk, its pattern so unlike anything from home, feeling a thrill at its exotic allure. It was from somewhere impossibly far, a tangible piece of the unknown, fascinatingly strange.

Her gaze, accustomed to the somber hues of the arctic tundra, found itself captivated by the vibrant, almost hallucinatory plumage of the avian specimen. It possessed an aura so strikingly unconventional, so alien to her northern sensibilities, that she felt a visceral thrill. This creature, surely originating in some distant, unknown clime, embodied a truly exotic wonder.

The explorer, accustomed to the quotidian, felt a profound thrill as he gazed upon the bioluminescent fungi of the forgotten grottos. Their uncanny luminescence, unlike anything cataloged from known continents, spoke of an exotic origin, a beauty so unconventional it resonated with an almost primal wonder.

Bartholomew, a veritable connoisseur of the peculiar, acquired an ornate, exotic automaton. Its intricate cogs and whirring mechanisms, originating from some hitherto unknown, far-flung nation, produced a cacophony so strikingly unconventional, it captivated his every whim.

Bartholomew, a man whose sartorial choices invariably leaned towards the egregiously ostentatious, donned a waistcoat woven from what he claimed were the filaments of an extinct, Amazonian fluff-beetle, an ensemble so strikingly unconventional and interesting, so overtly originating in or characteristic of a distant foreign country, that even the stoic alpaca judging the annual gnome-gnarling competition emitted a guttural gasp.

Difficulty

Normal — Everyday words worth reinforcing.

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