"lemma","pos","cefr_level","coverage_rank","context_sentence","context_sentence_zh","definition_zh"
"crisscross","Gerund","UNKNOWN","4201","One had many daggers within easy grasp, hanging on a bandolier that crisscrossed his chest.","",""
"neat","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4202","Elbryan understood immediately that this was their destination, that there was something unusual about these plants; they were growing in neat rows, evenly spaced, and the ground around them was bare.","",""
"gracefully","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4203","Silvery lines wove gracefully about the dark green stem; they seemed to Elbryan consistent with the fishing lines and the bowstrings the elves used.","",""
"cure","Verb","UNKNOWN","4204","So the monk, exhausted from fighting and then curing the stranger's magical poisoning, his mind heavy with drink, plopped down on his bed and was soon snoring loudly.","",""
"resilient","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4205","Elbryan knew how strong find resilient his bow was, and so he figured that if the softening gel would work on darkfern, it might even defeat the metal.","",""
"berry","Noun","UNKNOWN","4206","But fruits and berries are naught but ticklings.","",""
"slit","Noun","UNKNOWN","4207","The old elf took up a curious-looking knife, bent upward on both sides and with its cutting edge on one side of a slit running down its middle.","",""
"peel","Verb","UNKNOWN","4208","A tiny strip peeled away, so thin as to be nearly translucent.","",""
"crafting","Noun","UNKNOWN","4209","His was an act of the purest creation and not a mere crafting; his art was bound by magic and by the sheer skill that seven hundred years had honed.","",""
"hone","Verb","UNKNOWN","4210","She was no novice to battle, this one, with finely honed reflexes.","",""
"notch","Gerund","UNKNOWN","4211","He would spend the better part of half a year on this one, he knew, scraping and treating, notching and weaving spells of strength.","",""
"personality","Noun","UNKNOWN","4212","He had no idea what title he would give the bow; that would come to him as the weapon took on its own personality, its own nuances.","",""
"fluidly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4213","It had come so fluidly, so fast, that Elbryan was still staring at the elf when he heard the third arrow hit.","",""
"embed","Verb","UNKNOWN","4214","He was almost afraid to look up at the mark and wasn't surprised to find all three embedded squarely in the target, one in the bull'seye, the other two right beside it.","",""
"waver","Verb","UNKNOWN","4215","Every time his concentration wavered even a bit, his arrow flew wide of the mark, disappearing into the forest scrub.","",""
"callus","Noun","UNKNOWN","4216","The fingers of the young man's right hand were soon laced with calluses, and the leather on the inside of his black arm guard had been worn down to half its original thickness.","",""
"upside","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4217","He looked up to see that last giant upside down, flailing wildly, futilely, floating even farther away.","",""
"exploit","Noun","UNKNOWN","4218","- to his exploits in the Wilderlands.","",""
"broadsword","Noun","UNKNOWN","4219","Of the six, only one was still accounted for, a huge broadsword named Icebreaker, wielded by a rarely seen ranger, Andacanavar, in the far northland of Alpinador.","",""
"seen","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4220","Of the six, only one was still accounted for, a huge broadsword named Icebreaker, wielded by a rarely seen ranger, Andacanavar, in the far northland of Alpinador.","",""
"northland","Noun","UNKNOWN","4221","Of the six, only one was still accounted for, a huge broadsword named Icebreaker, wielded by a rarely seen ranger, Andacanavar, in the far northland of Alpinador.","",""
"perceive","Verb","UNKNOWN","4222","And it went deeper than that; the ranger came to perceive the world about Symphony through the eyes of the magnificent horse.","",""
"modesty","Noun","UNKNOWN","4223","Modesty caused Elbryan to hesitate, but Tuntun wasn't in the mood for a debate.","",""
"choosing","Noun","UNKNOWN","4224","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.","",""
"absently","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4225","""I hear the birds,"" he answered absently.","",""
"taper","Verb","UNKNOWN","4226","A subtle shift, still too quick for the creature to dodge, and Elbryan stabbed the tapered end out straight, striking the goblin on its sloping forehead right above and between the eyes, laying it out straight in the stream.","",""
"finely","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4227","A new set of clothes, finely made, was laid out on the floor before him.","",""
"dump","Verb","UNKNOWN","4228","The ranger went around to the back and dumped out the cauldron of poison.","",""
"hawk","Noun","UNKNOWN","4229","As the bow bent, the three feathers on its top tip separated from one another, looking like the

""fingers"" on the end of the wing of a gliding hawk.","",""
"trusting","Noun","UNKNOWN","4230","Elbryan's first instinct was to ask where, but he held the thought private, trusting that the elves would tell him if he needed to know.","",""
"shrub","Noun","UNKNOWN","4231","The land was relatively flat and brown, with sparse low shrubs poking here and there.","",""
"settler","Plural","UNKNOWN","4232","There were the Moorlands - the Soupy Bogs, they had been affectionately called by the settlers on the edge of the Wilderlands.","",""
"guardian","Plural","UNKNOWN","4233","He was a ranger, a guardian of the frontier humans and also of the forest and its creatures.","",""
"basin","Noun","UNKNOWN","4234","Rivulets of runoff had been crystalline all through the Moorlands, except in those low basins where the water collected and remained, where the ground and water seemed to blend, to melt together into a thick muddy stew.","",""
"subtly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4235","One of his senses subtly called out a warning to him.","",""
"upstream","Noun","UNKNOWN","4236","He noted a splash, not so far in the distance upstream.","",""
"consistency","Noun","UNKNOWN","4237","The noise increased - by the volume and consistency of the splashing, Elbryan figured there must be about a half dozen bipedal creatures approaching.","",""
"thankfully","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4238","The others held clubs and crude swords, but thankfully, no bows.","",""
"eeyan","Noun","UNKNOWN","4239","""Eeyan kos?"" one of them called.","",""
"whoop","Noun","UNKNOWN","4240","With a whoop of delight, the other goblins, predictably, came on.","",""
"flanking","Noun","UNKNOWN","4241","Elbryan caught the staff firmly in his left hand and extended that arm out in similar fashion so that the other flanking goblin was poked away.","",""
"hitting","Noun","UNKNOWN","4242","Seeing that creature in full flight, Elbryan stabbed the staff back out hard to his left, hitting the dazed and battered goblin right in the face.","",""
"backtracking","Noun","UNKNOWN","4243","Now I wonder if it wasn't merely a memory returned, a backtracking of the same course the elves.","",""
"resident","Noun","UNKNOWN","4244","I have no new friends among the current residents of Dundalis, and in truth, I expect none.","",""
"outskirt","Noun","UNKNOWN","4245","""I have an ear for what you might need to say.""

Jill considered the offer for a long moment, then moved away with the man to a room he had rented in a small inn on the outskirts of Macomber.","",""
"deceptive","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4246","""What?"" the ranger asked, skidding aside and turning to squarely face this deceptive foe.","",""
"stooping","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4247","Tol moved closer to the stooping ranger as he spoke.","",""
"farmhouse","Noun","UNKNOWN","4248","A black bear had attacked a farmhouse and that alone was enough of a mystery to force the ranger to investigate.","",""
"vent","Gerund","UNKNOWN","4249","The beast had run off from the farmhouse, creating a swath of devastation through the brush, even knocking over small trees, venting a rage that the ranger had never before witnessed in an animal.","",""
"foamy","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4250","He feared that he would find foamy saliva there, an indication of the most wicked disease.","",""
"raccoon","Noun","UNKNOWN","4251","If that was the case, then Elbryan would have his work cut out from him indeed, hunting almost day and night for other infected animals, everything from raccoons and weasels to bats.","",""
"weasel","Noun","UNKNOWN","4252","Weasel?""

The centaur snorted.","",""
"foam","Noun","UNKNOWN","4253","No foam; the ranger breathed a sigh of relief.","",""
"sappy","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4254","Elbryan recognized the black, sappy poison, a pain - inducing product of a rare black birch tree.","",""
"purposeful","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4255","This was no accident but a purposeful attack on the bear.","",""
"hut","Noun","UNKNOWN","4256","Their hut, a mere shack of logs and old boards - Elbryan got the distinct impression that many of these had come from the ruins of Dundalis - was at the top of a hill.","",""
"camouflage","Noun","UNKNOWN","4257","Slowly Brother Justice closed, using bodies as camouflage.","",""
"stealthily","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4258","Then, fearful that they would be too late, the pair split, left and right, and moved quickly and stealthily right up to the edge of the cavern entrance.","",""
"vat","Noun","UNKNOWN","4259","She turned to the catapult, its arm low and ready to fire, then looked at the vats of burning pitch, wondering what mischief she might cause.","",""
"concoction","Singular","UNKNOWN","4260","In a vat not far from the back wall of the shack, the ranger found a thick concoction of black liquid, and quickly surmised it to be the same irritant poison that had been used on the bear.","",""
"farm","Noun","UNKNOWN","4261","""The bear that destroyed a farm in Dundalis and nearly killed a family.""","",""
"bringing","Noun","UNKNOWN","4262","He fell away and Elbryan came up hard, bringing Hawkwing horizontal above his head in both hands to catch the downward chop of the second man's sword.","",""
"restrain","Verb","UNKNOWN","4263","Again the monk restrained his feeling of outrage that this man - this simple, pitiful, wretched merchant could speak of Father Abbot Markwart as if he were the man's equal.","",""
"inflict","Infinitive","UNKNOWN","4264","He had to find some way to hurt this thing, and though his sword might inflict some sting, it seemed that the wound could only be so deep.","",""
"stout","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4265","Jill regarded the short, stout man curiously.","",""
"letch","Noun","UNKNOWN","4266","But he was a letch, a drooling, grabby slob, who took it personally when Jill refused his advances.","",""
"revert","Verb","UNKNOWN","4267","Even his strict rules for duty had relaxed within the week, Pireth Tulme reverting to its typical partying ways.","",""
"hangover","Noun","UNKNOWN","4268","She collected ten of Pireth Tulme's Coastpoint Guards, using their hangovers as a tool for rejecting more of the others, then set out, double-timing the march down the dirt path.","",""
"reject","Verb","UNKNOWN","4269","She collected ten of Pireth Tulme's Coastpoint Guards, using their hangovers as a tool for rejecting more of the others, then set out, double-timing the march down the dirt path.","",""
"foothold","Noun","UNKNOWN","4270","""Oh, evil, what a foothold you have found!","",""
"barter","Verb","UNKNOWN","4271","Often marauding goblins would send in a messenger before the attack to ask for surrender, to barter for a bribe, warning that battle would otherwise be joined.","",""
"hah","Noun","UNKNOWN","4272","""Hah!"" the huge man bellowed.","",""
"foolhardiness","Noun","UNKNOWN","4273","What dignity in foolhardiness?","",""
"fete","Noun","UNKNOWN","4274","Jill watched him for a fete moments, honestly intrigued.","",""
"encroachment","Noun","UNKNOWN","4275","""I beg of you, do not, for you are part of the encroachment, do you not see?","",""
"sheath","Noun","UNKNOWN","4276","Gofflaw growled at her, but under Jill's unyielding glare, he replaced his sword in its sheath.","",""
"insulting","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4277","Bradwarden snorted as if the very question were insulting.","",""
"weep","Verb","UNKNOWN","4278","She moved to the door to see the friar shuffling down the muddy lane, weeping and crying out for the ""sins of men"" and the woeful state of preparation.","",""
"diatribe","Noun","UNKNOWN","4279","He swung about, some score of yards from the tavern entrance, and launched into a diatribe on the coming dark days, about a world unprepared to face the forces of evil, about a darkness being fed by the internal rot of the land.","",""
"inconspicuous","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4280","CHAPTER 25 Brother Justice

Master Jojonah looked down from an inconspicuous balcony at the large chamber, bare of any furnishing but for a few practice riggings sitting against the far wall.","",""
"occasionally","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4281","He uttered a chant repeatedly, using it to bolster his failing strength, and De'Unnero, the new master who had taken Siherton's place, stalked about him, occasionally stinging him with a riding crop.","",""
"immaculate","Verb","UNKNOWN","4282","Behind Quintall stood a tenth-year immaculate.","",""
"infamous","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4283","The demon dactyl had been awake for several years, watching, feeling every slaughter of humans in the Wilderlands, tasting the blood of every corpse into which a powrie dipped its infamous cap, hearing the screams of sailors and passengers as each scuttled ship went under the swells of the merciless Mirianic.","",""
"passenger","Noun","UNKNOWN","4284","The demon dactyl had been awake for several years, watching, feeling every slaughter of humans in the Wilderlands, tasting the blood of every corpse into which a powrie dipped its infamous cap, hearing the screams of sailors and passengers as each scuttled ship went under the swells of the merciless Mirianic.","",""
"merciless","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4285","The villages had been captured, that was true, but too few humans had been killed, and this mysterious Nightbird and his friends were wreaking havoc on every supply group that came down from the north, something the merciless dactyl had certainly noticed - the arrival of the spirit who called himself Brother Justice confirmed that fact.","",""
"plat","Verb","UNKNOWN","4286","Bradwarden's heavy bow, swung as a club, rang off the plated armor, splintering as it hit.","",""
"underling","Noun","UNKNOWN","4287","Among the three evil races, none had earned any reputation of loyalty or honor, but now, with the bracers, the dactyl could hold faith that its four chosen generals would survive the not unexpected treachery of their underlings.","",""
"lair","Noun","UNKNOWN","4288","The passages forked many times, and they had to choose, without any guidance other than their own perceptions of where they might be and where the demon's lair was likely situated.","",""
"executioner","Noun","UNKNOWN","4289","He was judge, jury, and executioner, assigned by the Father Abbot.","",""
"rightfully","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4290","""One whose title as Brother Justice is fair and true, and who carries the punishment rightfully earned by the outlaw monk you name as your companion?""","",""
"renegade","Noun","UNKNOWN","4291","And he did not desire to leave behind any legacy of failure=including the existence of the renegade Avelyn.","",""
"necessarily","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4292","The folk of the Wilderlands frontier necessarily huddle together.","",""
"isolate","Verb","UNKNOWN","4293","Their fear isolates them, and they often cannot distinguish friend from foe.","",""
"equate","Verb","UNKNOWN","4294","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.","",""
"seeking","Noun","UNKNOWN","4295","He used all his training, all his tools, focusing his senses one at a time in each direction, on every plant and every animal, seeking some hint of the source.","",""
"conceal","Verb","UNKNOWN","4296","There were no signs to be found - Brother Justice had made certain of that - and oblivious Avelyn passed by within thirty feet of the concealed entrance to the cave that now served as Jill's prison.","",""
"piper","Noun","UNKNOWN","4297","""Bradwarden the Piper,"" the man answered proudly.","",""
"rightly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4298","Bradwarden the ...""

He stopped as Elbryan came out from behind the tree, the ranger rightly sensing that this introduction could go on for some time.","",""
"dumbfoundedly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4299","The demon stared dumbfoundedly at the dusty cloud, at Avelyn, as if to ask what the man had done, and again, Avelyn had no answers.","",""
"ears","Verb","UNKNOWN","4300","""Two more ears!"" Cric laughed, but Paulson wasn't thinking along those lines just then.","",""