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The facade of the house was (i) ______, making the interior [#permalink] New post   14 Mar 2019, 09:30
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The facade of the house was (i) ______, making the interior even more disappointing to prospective buyers.


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Re: The facade of the house was (i) ______, making the interior [#permalink] New post   21 Mar 2019, 11:39
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The word I came up with for the blank was "awesome." The interior is disappointing, objectively. Even If the outside was also disappointing, the interior would still be bad.

However, if the outside looks great, then the interior is going to be even more of a letdown. You might enter with high expectations, thinking that the interior will be just as magnificent as the exterior. But then you are very disappointed by the terrible interior.

The word "august" isn't used like this frequently, but it means impressive, which fits the sentence perfectly. "Ostentatious" is the closest runner-up, but it comes with negative connotations, meaning designed to impress for haughty reasons.
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Re: The facade of the house was (i) ______, making the interior [#permalink] New post   21 Mar 2019, 22:49
I like the explanation
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Re: The facade of the house was (i) ______, making the interior [#permalink] New post   24 Jul 2020, 09:15
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Even more is not a detour sign......its supporting before clause.........i think it should be gloomy or dilapidated. Correct me if I am wrong?
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Re: The facade of the house was (i) ______, making the interior [#permalink] New post   28 Jul 2020, 11:46
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Re: The facade of the house was (i) ______, making the interior [#permalink] New post   28 Jul 2020, 12:20
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The explantion above provided by the tutor and expert by Magoosh is a perfect fit.

There no compromise in the answer choices: or positive or negative.

However, the second part of the sentence tells us that the interior was disappointing. That means the facade was good or shiny or in perfect condition or something like that.

Put you in front of the house you would like to buy: the decade was awesome and then you expect the interior is even better. Then you are inside and the house is a mess so , of course, you are even MORE disappointed because you thought very different

Only A and C are positive words but A means kitsch, extravagant.

Even though I do not know the meaning of August (the only word reminds me with this name is the 8th month of the year - vacation) must be the answer.

August= prestigious.

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The facade of the house was (i) ______, making the interior [#permalink] New post   01 Feb 2023, 20:44
Questions created by these tutoring institutes are not really perfect and lack the mathematical precision of GRE questions.
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Re: The facade of the house was (i) ______, making the interior [#permalink] New post   01 Apr 2023, 05:40
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My understanding is "Outward appearance itself look bad and makes the interior much more disappointing"
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Re: The facade of the house was (i) ______, making the interior [#permalink] New post   01 Oct 2023, 23:04
The facade of the house was (i) ______, making the interior even more disappointing to prospective buyers.
I believe ostentatious can also fit here. All the more because the facade masks the bad situation in the interior of the house, exactly a context that we can use the word ostentatious.
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Re: The facade of the house was (i) ______, making the interior [#permalink] New post   30 Oct 2025, 01:48
Doesn't "even more" suggest it was already bad to begin with?
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Re: The facade of the house was (i) ______, making the interior [#permalink] New post   30 Oct 2025, 02:58
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even more here as the function to aggravate or put more emphasis what is asserted in the first part of the sentence!
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