"lemma","pos","cefr_level","coverage_rank","context_sentence","context_sentence_zh","definition_zh"
"southeastern","Noun","UNKNOWN","3001","No land came in sight for three days, the Windjammer making a direct run to the southeastern point of the Gulf of Corona, the northern tip of the region known as the Mantis Arm.","",""
"solemn","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3002","The ceremony went off perfectly solemn yet joyous, ladies crying, men standing tall and handsome.","",""
"toil","Noun","UNKNOWN","3003","He got his reward for his morning's toils when he returned to the bog to collect the tenth loaded basket.","",""
"underground","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3004","When the showers arrived, he and his fellow Preparer would be hidden underground, sheltered from the pelting meteors.","",""
"market","Verb","UNKNOWN","3005","Seven hundred monks lived here and another two hundred servants, many of them never leaving the place except to go on short visits, usually to market in the village of St.-Mere-Abelle, some three miles inland.","",""
"grueling","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3006","CHAPTER 8 The Preparer

The schedule was grueling, designed to find weakness and break those who were not fit for the daily rigors of the Order of St.-Mere-Abelle.","",""
"testing","Noun","UNKNOWN","3007","Eight years of formal study, eight years of grueling testing, had brought Avelyn to this point, one of twenty-five remaining of the two thousand twelve-year-olds who had begun the process, each desperately vying to gain admittance in this class of God's Year 816.","",""
"eyelid","Noun","UNKNOWN","3008","But weariness overtook him, caught him where he sat, and brought his eyelids low.","",""
"mortality","Noun","UNKNOWN","3009","Under that sky that posed to me so many questions, I dismissed mortality, for I had become one with something that was eternal.","",""
"denial","Noun","UNKNOWN","3010","Images assaulted them, mingling with imagined scenes even more horrifying, and amid all of it welled utter denial, the hope against obvious reality that this simply could not be happening.","",""
"momentary","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3011","The giant plunged the spear down low instead, right into the boulder, and Elbryan was too surprised to seize the momentary opening and charge ahead.","",""
"sweetness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3012","The sweetness was there, but somehow just out of Jill's reach.","",""
"parting","Noun","UNKNOWN","3013","In the morning came the second painful parting.","",""
"windblown","Noun","UNKNOWN","3014","They twisted and gouged, floating about and through the bare windblown rocks of the Barbacan.","",""
"intriguing","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3015","She was closer to seventeen than sixteen now, by all appearances no more a girl, and surely the thought of the handsome man imparted intriguing, warm thoughts.","",""
"statue","Noun","UNKNOWN","3016","Along one wall stood a gigantic statue, fifteen feet or more, dressed in a heavy leather jacket, trimmed in fur and set with spiked metal plates and heavy iron rings.","",""
"dramatically","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3017","He resisted, and the hematite receded dramatically, almost forcing him from the trance.","",""
"gruesome","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3018","Spurred by the gruesome sight, she attacked fiercely.","",""
"coat","Noun","UNKNOWN","3019","Its limbs were slender and long and its armor a silver shining coat of fine interlocking links.","",""
"similarly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3020","He calmed quickly, though, seeing that all of his classmates were similarly entranced and that the Father Abbot and the other ranking monks seemed not to care.","",""
"accomplishment","Noun","UNKNOWN","3021","And, in the end, it is a sense of accomplishment, of purpose, and not the wealth attained by such accomplishment, that equates to fulfillment and happiness.","",""
"wariness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3022","For the adults, the specter of the goblins brought a sobering wariness and then a troublesome distraction.","",""
"realm","Noun","UNKNOWN","3023","Even Elbryan, who would be entering the realm of adults that coming spring, had spent almost all the previous week with his head up a dirty chimney.","",""
"respectfully","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3024","Each of this group nodded respectfully at his younger counterparts as he passed them on the rim; some mentioned that Elbryan's patrols would serve as their vital liaison with the village proper.","",""
"compliment","Noun","UNKNOWN","3025","After that exchange of compliments, even the passing of endless uneventful hours could not dampen the thrill for the youngsters.","",""
"team","Noun","UNKNOWN","3026","Elbryan continued his diligent work, though, reorganizing the routes to cover more ground since he was down to three teams of five, with a couple of messengers.","",""
"uneventfully","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3027","Another week passed by uneventfully.","",""
"crumble","Verb","UNKNOWN","3028","Elbryan was watching his first command crumbling about him, his soldiers being taken away so that they could help patch roofs or shore up barns.","",""
"sympathize","Verb","UNKNOWN","3029","Brother Justice understood this, though he hardly sympathized.","",""
"luster","Noun","UNKNOWN","3030","Elbryan had that same impish quality about him as Mather, a love and luster of life, lurking just below the surface.","",""
"absolutely","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3031","Markwart needed to be absolutely certain.","",""
"bump","Noun","UNKNOWN","3032","He dared to put his arms around Pony's back, dared to pull her closer, feeling the strangely interesting curves and bumps of her body against his own as they came together.","",""
"urgency","Noun","UNKNOWN","3033","The kiss shifted, from curiosity to urgency, then back to gentleness.","",""
"wag","Verb","UNKNOWN","3034","If that was the case, would he be justified in waging battle with these six?","",""
"formerly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3035","The creature flexed its great wings and settled back in the throne it had shaped from the obsidian that had formerly served as its tomb.","",""
"unreal","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3036","It was too unreal, too beyond their experience and expectations.","",""
"expectation","Plural","UNKNOWN","3037","It was too unreal, too beyond their experience and expectations.","",""
"rag","Verb","UNKNOWN","3038","Avelyn thought his very skin would slip off his body, a great rag, and fall rumpled to the deck.","",""
"fatal","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3039","Avelyn meant to turn him over, but he could not find his breath when he looked at the fatal wound, a gaping hole smashed right through Thagraine's skull, brain matter splattered all about.","",""
"loll","Verb","UNKNOWN","3040","Its head lolled from side to side.","",""
"grayish","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3041","Elbryan saw the bright red gash, the white of split bone, the grayish brain.","",""
"sag","Verb","UNKNOWN","3042","The young man shifted to a sitting position and sagged on the wet ground.","",""
"anymore","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3043","There were no lines of defense anymore, no organized pockets of resistance.","",""
"grotesque","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3044","Dots of red, like grotesque chicken pox, covered the giant's face and arms.","",""
"lad","Noun","UNKNOWN","3045","The call brought the sprinting lad to a skidding halt.","",""
"pointy","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3046","The ugly goblin face, all twisted teeth and long pointy nose, was barely inches from Elbryan's face, and closer still when the creature began to butt the boy.","",""
"butt","Verb","UNKNOWN","3047","He pulled her hands out wide, and she used the opening to head-butt him again.","",""
"brutally","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3048","Elbryan at first tried to defend himself but when that seemed futile, went on the offensive instead, brutally turning and twisting his blade.","",""
"overrule","Verb","UNKNOWN","3049","Wisdom overruled his rage, though, and he stayed hidden and let them pass.","",""
"buzz","Verb","UNKNOWN","3050","The whole village had buzzed about the house because Olwan Wyndon was laying a stone foundation.","",""
"rotation","Singular","UNKNOWN","3051","They broke their line often, individual elves leaping into pirouettes or simply following steps of their own choosing, but in general the rotation continued about Elbryan.","",""
"impatient","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3052","The stunned man stammered, taking too long for the impatient monk's comfort.","",""
"portly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3053","She stood up and offered her hand, helping the portly monk to his feet.","",""
"speck","Noun","UNKNOWN","3054","He turned his fingers gently to flick a speck of mud from her cheek, though his gaze never left her shining blue eyes.","",""
"squint","Verb","UNKNOWN","3055","His face was sharp and hawkish, his eyes small and dark

 - and smaller still on those many occasions that he squinted ominously at his young students.","",""
"chore","Noun","UNKNOWN","3056","In addition to their daily duties as first - and second - year students at the abbey, they were given the extra chores of preparation for their journey to Pimaninicuit.","",""
"lust","Verb","UNKNOWN","3057","And, because of that passion, because of worldly lusts, a man who could be controlled.","",""
"declaration","Singular","UNKNOWN","3058","It was her glory that I join the Abellican Church, and I would be stealing that glory if I left now."" He sucked in his breath, bolstering his declaration.","",""
"commission","Verb","UNKNOWN","3059","That thought shook Jojonah as he looked around at his decorated chamber, at the beautiful tapestry he had commissioned from the gallery of Porvon dan Guardinio, among the most respected artists in all the world.","",""
"gallery","Noun","UNKNOWN","3060","Brother Avelyn, too, ignored Tol Yuganick's cheering gallery.","",""
"artist","Noun","UNKNOWN","3061","He wanted to kneel and pray; he wanted to ask who the artist - or artists; for certainly no one man could have created all of this - might be, but realized before the words left his mouth that any name would be inconsequential, for certainly the carvers and illuminators who had done this had done so at the explicit intervention of God.","",""
"immaculates","Verb","UNKNOWN","3062","Jojonah glanced around the room again, reminding himself that most of the other masters, even some of the tenth-year immaculates, had chambers more richly adorned.","",""
"retire","Verb","UNKNOWN","3063","That night, Avelyn retired to his room, thoroughly exhausted, both emotionally and physically.","",""
"volunteer","Verb","UNKNOWN","3064","He had spent all his waking hours at demanding work, volunteering for the most difficult parts of each task.","",""
"herald","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3065","Only the call to vespers, the ceremony heralding eventide, had interrupted Avelyn's frantic pace.","",""
"flood","Verb","UNKNOWN","3066","Images of his mother flooded his thoughts; he wondered if he might see a vision of her now, a visitation of her spirit before it went to its place in heaven.","",""
"disappointment","Singular","UNKNOWN","3067","She wasn't, to Avelyn's ultimate disappointment.","",""
"experienced","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3068","After only a few weeks in the abbey, Avelyn knew enough about the routine to understand that students much older and more experienced than he were the normal choice for any tasks, however menial, in the Abbot's Maze.","",""
"oval","Noun","UNKNOWN","3069","Scenes of the Halo, the heavenly gift, enwrapping all the others, an oval because of the angle at which it was portrayed.","",""
"portal","Noun","UNKNOWN","3070","Beyond this portal, Avelyn saw a huge room, braced by columns and lit by the orange flow of molten stone.","",""
"latch","Noun","UNKNOWN","3071","Avelyn blinked; amid the wonders of the door, he hadn't even noticed the huge latch!","",""
"hinge","Noun","UNKNOWN","3072","He hated risking them all but realized the success of the mission hinged on their actions right now.","",""
"interior","Noun","UNKNOWN","3073","They were far below ground in one of the abbey's interior chambers, so there could be no window.","",""
"cloudless","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3074","But there was indeed light inside that room, such a light as to make Avelyn think of a cloudless midsummer day.","",""
"practically","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3075","Jojonah moved into the room, Avelyn practically stumbling behind him.","",""
"crystalline","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3076","Avelyn studied the way the light worked off the many facets of the diamonds, how it seemed to delve within the stone itself, swirling down to crystalline depths.","",""
"astronomical","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3077","They studied the Halo, the charts that determined the astronomical data which would indicate the time of the showers.","",""
"girdle","Noun","UNKNOWN","3078","Perhaps he would shine in the heavens above, a fifth light on the girdle of Progos-Behemoth!","",""
"groove","Noun","UNKNOWN","3079","Looking closer, Avelyn noted grooves in the wall.","",""
"offering","Noun","UNKNOWN","3080","Master Jojonah had called the stone showers ""offerings,"" and to Avelyn, that description seemed exactly wrong.","",""
"click","Noun","UNKNOWN","3081","Master Siherton came out of Markwart's room alone, his boots clicking on the floor as he made his way in the direction of the stone room.","",""
"lever","Verb","UNKNOWN","3082","Jill did see that a detachment of six soldiers was at the catapult, three working the levers, three desperately trying to hold a handful of powries at bay.","",""
"somberly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3083","Bradwarden nodded somberly, and Elbryan scooped up Hawkwing and ran off into the night, behind the departing powrie, though the ranger held faith that Avelyn would know how to deal with the dwarf.","",""
"effortlessly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3084","He understood the command and willed himself off the ground, drifting effortlessly toward the ceiling.","",""
"whispering","Noun","UNKNOWN","3085","To the left came a titter, a tiny voice whispering softly.","",""
"fancy","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3086","There was indeed a mystery here that no tumble of fancy words could lay bare; there was something here of a higher order.","",""
"tenfold","Noun","UNKNOWN","3087","He glanced around the room again, from stone to stone, his reverence of these gifts from God tenfold what it had been when first he had entered the chamber.","",""
"hidden","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3088","When he was gone, Master Jojonah replaced the stones, closed the case, then went to the wall and moved the hidden switch to lock it fast.","",""
"amazing","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3089","For the young man to use the stones and drift out of the room, out of the abbey, and see the design on the roof was truly amazing.","",""
"slanting","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3090","As soon as they cleared that last copse, they saw an entrance, a great gaping hole, defying the slanting rays of the westering sun.","",""
"beckon","Verb","UNKNOWN","3091","It caressed him and beckoned him.","",""
"partially","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3092","Pettibwa left Fellowship Way to her, even partially, Grady would not be pleased.","",""
"multitude","Noun","UNKNOWN","3093","And then came the next long pause, lying on the ground on her back, her thoughts swirling down a multitude of paths, every one of which seemed to lead to no place but despair.","",""
"fearing","Noun","UNKNOWN","3094","And then she could look no more, fearing that she would find Thomas Ault, her father dear, among the dead.","",""
"investigate","Infinitive","B2","3095","Pony thought she should go closer to investigate, but she hadn't the stomach.","",""
"numbness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3096","She stood and stared, and a numbness came over her, stealing her emotions.","",""
"bravely","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3097","Elbryan could see his father had died bravely, and understanding.","",""
"forceful","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3098","He was broad shouldered and strong, forceful in manner as he was in speech.","",""
"stiffen","Verb","UNKNOWN","3099","The elf straightened and stiffened, and leaned forward over the lunging boy's head and shoulders.","",""
"uncertain","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3100","And Elbryan cried for himself, his future bleak and uncertain.","",""