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exterior

Meaning

The outward surface or appearance of something.

Examples by difficulty

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

The house looked so sad. Its paint was peeling, and the garden was overgrown. The plain, worn exterior gave no hint of the warmth and love waiting inside.

The rough, salt-crusted exterior of the fishing trawler looked like it had weathered a thousand storms. Barnacles clung stubbornly to its sides, and the peeling paint told a story of endless days battling the choppy, gray sea. It was a hard life, etched onto its very skin.

The worn leather satchel, a traveler's companion for years, showed its age. Scratches marked the exterior, telling silent stories of rough roads and close calls. Despite its weathered look, the important documents inside remained safe and sound.

My uncle's house had a very peculiar exterior. Bright pink paint clashed with lime green shutters, and a garden gnome with a handlebar mustache guarded the entrance. Honestly, the whole outward surface looked like a toddler had attacked it with crayons and glitter glue.

My pet rock, Bartholomew, has a surprisingly smooth exterior, considering he's mostly been underground. He's less about fancy paint jobs and more about a quiet, earthy look. Honestly, the only exterior decoration he needs is a tiny, glued-on googly eye.

Normal: Standard, everyday language.

He braced himself, the cold wind biting at his exposed face. He didn't care about the biting wind or the freezing rain; all he focused on was the dark, imposing exterior of the building, wondering what waited inside.

The weathered exterior of the abandoned lighthouse stood defiantly against the relentless coastal wind. Salt spray coated its rough stone, obscuring the once-bright paint, a silent testament to years of neglect and the ocean's ceaseless assault.

His scarred face, the grim exterior of a life lived in the harsh salt flats, held no warmth. The cracked lips, the sun-bleached eyebrows, told a story of relentless winds and stinging sand. You could see the hardship etched there, a map of his past.

My dog's exterior is a swirling masterpiece of questionable stains and the occasional rogue sock. It's less "majestic beast" and more "walking laundry disaster." Even his nose, a usually sophisticated organ, sports a smudge of something suspiciously like dried gravy.

My prize-winning pet rock, Bartholomew, boasts a surprisingly vibrant exterior, despite his sedentary lifestyle. His usual contemplative stillness is punctuated by the occasional sparkle of mica, giving his outward surface a flamboyant, disco-ball-like sheen that entrances even the most jaded gravel enthusiast.

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

The house’s worn exterior spoke volumes about its neglect. Peeling paint and a sagging porch hinted at a sad story within, a stark contrast to the vibrant dreams the family once held for this place.

The weathered exterior of the abandoned observatory offered no hint of the complex machinery hidden within. Dust coated everything, a testament to years of neglect, and a forlorn emptiness clung to the chipped paint and rusting dome, promising only silence and decay.

The child traced the cracked plaster of the ancient ruin, his small fingers seeking purchase on the rough exterior. He imagined the people who built it, their lives hidden behind those weathered walls, the whole grand story told only by the sun-bleached stone and crumbling mortar.

My uncle's prize-winning pumpkin had a truly magnificent exterior, a shimmering orange orb so perfect it seemed sculpted by celestial hands. Unfortunately, upon cutting into its flawless exterior, we discovered it was filled with nothing but a disgruntled squirrel and a cryptic note about "the gourdocalypse."

Bartholomew's elaborate, sequined exterior, the outward surface of his passion for competitive alpaca grooming, gleamed under the stadium lights. Unfortunately, the judges were less impressed with the ruffled fluff and more concerned with the peculiar smell emanating from his suspiciously shiny boots.

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

The weathered house's exterior offered no hint of the warmth and joyous life within. Its peeling paint and dilapidated shutters presented a grim facade, a stark contrast to the vibrant, welcoming atmosphere that permeated its interior, a testament to the resilience of its inhabitants.

The stark, unadorned exterior of the research outpost offered no hint of the arcane cosmological forces contained within. Its sheer, unyielding surface, devoid of ornamentation, masked the profound ontological shifts happening on the interior, a chilling testament to the deceptive nature of outward appearances.

Despite the grim rumors circulating, the building's exterior remained deceptively pristine, a polished facade of obsidian that belied the frenzied panic within. Its smooth, unblemished surface offered no hint of the desperate scrabbling and muffled thuds echoing from its concealed interior, a stark contrast to the palpable terror its unyielding shell concealed.

The outlandish jester, adorned in a motley tapestry of psychedelic hues, presented an utterly ludicrous exterior. His visage, a veritable carnival of paint and preposterous protrusions, hinted at a mind as bewilderingly chaotic as his preposterous accouterments, a magnificent testament to visual pandemonium.

The architect's magnum opus, a veritable monument to hubris, boasted an exterior encrusted with ethically sourced, yet undeniably garish, petrified narwhal tusks. Its outward appearance, a riot of phosphorescent absurdity, made passing surveyors retch silently.

Difficulty

Basic — Common words most learners already know.

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