"lemma","pos","cefr_level","coverage_rank","global_frequency","context_sentence","context_sentence_zh","definition_zh"
"feigning","Noun","B1","3201","2","The monk leaped ahead, feigning a punch and kicking straight out for Elbryan's knee.","",""
"kissing","Noun","B1","3202","2","Elbryan sighed again, and Pony took his face in her hands, turned him to her, and pulled him close, kissing him gently.","",""
"romantic","Adjective","B1","3203","2","All romantic notions Avelyn had held concerning sea voyages were long gone, washed away by the slow, creaking, rolling reality.","",""
"trader","Noun","B1","3204","2","""Yach, trader, give her up!","",""
"operation","Singular","B1","3205","2","Adjonas motioned to Bunkus Smealy; this was Quintall's operation now, and the Windrunner captain, with no other apparent options, was more than willing to give the sturdy monk his chance.","",""
"smoothly","Adverb","B1","3206","2","The barrelboat closed - fifty yards, forty, twenty - cutting the water smoothly.","",""
"luxury","Noun","B1","3207","2","To keep them out now, with land so close and inviting - land likely covered with fruit trees and other luxuries they had not known on the open sea - was foolhardy indeed.","",""
"mentally","Adverb","B1","3208","2","Finally, Elbryan found that crease between breastplate and girdle, mentally marking the spot.","",""
"tumbling","Adjective","B1","3209","2","- a tiger's paw, it was called - from the tumbling box.","",""
"hire","Verb","B1","3210","2","Brother Justice's first thought was that Avelyn had hired on with this obviously wealthy merchant, perhaps to perform some necessary feat with the stones, perhaps merely as a court jester.","",""
"brooding","Adjective","B1","3211","2","The brooding demon that forever haunted the race of man had come back to the world.","",""
"basis","Singular","B1","3212","2","In elven philosophy, the first truth, the basis of reality was that the entire material, physical world was no more than the collection of perceptions by the observer.","",""
"typically","Adverb","B1","3213","2","""The Waylaid Traveler,"" Barmine added in his typically curt manner.","",""
"outpost","Noun","B1","3214","2","A short while later one haggard-looking soldier - a man of forty years by the name of Gofflaw, who had spent more than half his wretched life in the Kingsmen, including a dozen years in the Coastpoint Guards shuffling from one lonely outpost to another came staggering out to the wall, making his way toward Jill.","",""
"drunken","Adjective","B1","3215","2","She wasn't particularly afraid; she didn't think the drunken slob would even get to her before he fell off the narrow walkway, dropping the eight feet to the fortress's small courtyard.","",""
"medium","Noun","B1","3216","2","The tracks were surely those of a medium-sized bear, but Elbryan felt as if he were tracking a fomorian giant or some other evil, reasoning creature, some creature purposefully bent on destruction.","",""
"arrival","Noun","B1","3217","2","On the very first night after her arrival, one of the men had tried to get too familiar with the fiery woman.","",""
"waver","Verb","B1","3218","2","Every time his concentration wavered even a bit, his arrow flew wide of the mark, disappearing into the forest scrub.","",""
"taper","Verb","B1","3219","2","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.","",""
"hut","Noun","B1","3220","2","Elbryan's voice trailed off as the image in the mirror shifted, as though the lens that was the mirror was drawing back from that single shielded candle, widening to include many others, little burning huts of snow, they seemed, set in a familiar field.","",""
"reject","Verb","B1","3221","2","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.","",""
"omen","Noun","B1","3222","2","Jill sighed deeply every time she considered the man who had called himself the hound of ill omen.","",""
"merciless","Adjective","B1","3223","2","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.","",""
"necessarily","Adverb","B1","3224","2","The folk of the Wilderlands frontier necessarily huddle together.","",""
"piper","Noun","B1","3225","2","""Bradwarden the Piper,"" the man answered proudly.","",""
"skirmish","Noun","B1","3226","2","They ran all the morning, fighting often, but only quick skirmishes.","",""
"naturally","Adverb","B1","3227","2","Jill was naturally strong, but surely not as strong as he had been.","",""
"silly","Adjective","B1","3228","2","""If we missed them, I'll beat ye silly,"" the large man huffed at Chipmunk, who wisely shifted to the side, out of arm's reach.","",""
"groaning","Noun","B1","3229","2","It went down hard, groaning, trying to shake the dizziness, growling against the searing pain.","",""
"dimly","Adverb","B1","3230","2","Elbryan waited for a long while in the dimly lit cave, the day outside gray and hinting again of snow.","",""
"powerfully","Adverb","B1","3231","2","Elbryan jammed one end of Hawkwing into the dirt and swept the staff powerfully across in front of him, left to right, deflecting the blow.","",""
"complex","Adjective","B1","3232","2","Elbryan gave a smile and shook his head, entertained, as usual by the complex man.","",""
"pierce","Verb","B1","3233","2","Elbryan's next shot pierced its heart and drove deep into the tree behind it, and the goblin slumped, quite dead, but standing, pegged to the tree.","",""
"ghostly","Adjective","B1","3234","2","Elbryan first noticed the ghostly figures moving through the mist as twilight descended.","",""
"admiring","Noun","B1","3235","2","He put a hand on Elbryan's shoulder and gave the man a sincere, admiring look.","",""
"attach","Verb","B1","3236","2","As if some wire were attached to its back, the zombie stood suddenly, moving straight up without use of its hands, without bending its legs.","",""
"galloping","Adjective","B1","3237","2","Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the galloping charge of Bradwarden, the centaur singing at the top of his considerable voice, waving a huge cudgel as easily as if it were a tiny baton.","",""
"faintly","Adverb","B1","3238","2","Pony awakened shortly thereafter, the dulled dawn just beginning, but still the glow from atop the mountain was faintly visible.","",""
"prophecy","Noun","B1","3239","2","Pony looked at Avelyn, thinking of his prophecies of doom all those weeks together on the road, thinking of the weakness of the world the monk constantly berated and of the name he gave to it.","",""
"sober","Verb","B1","3240","2","But now the sobered monk remained silent and uncomplaining.","",""
"forcing","Noun","B1","3241","2","Pursuit was close and fast, forcing the tired companions to stay at full speed.","",""
"gradual","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3242","2","It didn't seem such a momentous thing, just a gradual stirring in a deep cave in a far, empty mountain.","",""
"twitching","Noun","UNKNOWN","3243","2","The dactyl could feel its blood, hot blood, coursing through its wings and mighty legs, could feel the twitching of its mighty muscles.","",""
"stasis","Singular","UNKNOWN","3244","2","It is settled, Uncle Mather, a new stasis, a level of play.","",""
"encase","Verb","UNKNOWN","3245","2","The spirit had come back to Corona encased in obsidian!","",""
"batlike","Noun","UNKNOWN","3246","2","Its torso resembled that of a tall, slender man, shaped and lined by corded strands of taut muscle and sporting a pair of tremendous batlike wings, twenty feet across when fully extended and with strength enough to lift a full-grown bull in swift flight.","",""
"orb","Noun","UNKNOWN","3247","2","Shining, too, were the demon's eyes, pools of liquid black at most times, but shifting to fiery red orbs, living flames, when the demon was agitated, a glow of absolute hatred.","",""
"canine","Plural","UNKNOWN","3248","2","The demon extended its fingernails, transformed them into hooked claws, and grew its teeth-two pointed canines extending down over its bottom lip.","",""
"skewer","Verb","UNKNOWN","3249","2","Dinoniel himself had come into this cave after the beast, had skewered the dactyl...","",""
"throe","Noun","UNKNOWN","3250","2","Yet even in its death throes, the dactyl had won the day, using its willpower to bring up the magma from the bowels of Aida.","",""
"bowel","Noun","UNKNOWN","3251","2","Yet even in its death throes, the dactyl had won the day, using its willpower to bring up the magma from the bowels of Aida.","",""
"resonating","Noun","UNKNOWN","3252","2","""What man, what elf, will take Dinoniel's place?"" the demon asked aloud in its hollow, resonating voice, always seeming on the edge of a thunderous roar.","",""
"greed","Noun","UNKNOWN","3253","2","The wicked goblins certainly, so full of anger and greed, so delighting in murder and war.","",""
"warlike","Noun","UNKNOWN","3254","2","And the powries, yes, the powries, the cunning, warlike dwarves of the Julianthes, the Weathered Isles, who hated the humans above all others.","",""
"drool","Noun","UNKNOWN","3255","2","But he was a letch, a drooling, grabby slob, who took it personally when Jill refused his advances.","",""
"twilight","Noun","UNKNOWN","3256","2","Elbryan first noticed the ghostly figures moving through the mist as twilight descended.","",""
"morrow","Noun","UNKNOWN","3257","2","To offer the promise of the morrow?","",""
"waft","Noun","UNKNOWN","3258","2","Hot blood waft steam in night air cold.","",""
"eerily","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3259","2","The small frontier village of Dundalis was quiet and eerily still about him, sleeping off the well-earned weariness that followed every day's hard labor.","",""
"teen","Noun","UNKNOWN","3260","2","She was in her mid-teens, but had the shapely body of a woman five years older.","",""
"merry","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3261","2","He felt as though he could say anything to her, and she wouldn't judge him or make merry of his feelings.","",""
"outfight","Noun","UNKNOWN","3262","2","She stood straight but not stiff, and could outrun and outfight any of the boys in Dundalis, Elbryan included.","",""
"involuntarily","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3263","2","When Pony's eyes showed sadness, Elbryan felt it in his heart; when they soared with sparkling joy, Elbryan's feet moved involuntarily in dance.","",""
"reflexively","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3264","2","She reflexively cocked a fist, and Elbryan wisely jumped back.","",""
"excite","Verb","UNKNOWN","3265","2","Finally, Chipmunk caught up to his friend, but he was too excited to explain in words.","",""
"rainbow","Noun","UNKNOWN","3266","2","She remembered that long-ago morning on the tree-covered slope, looking at the sky, at the shining Halo, with its rainbow of colors, its heavenly allure.","",""
"perceptible","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3267","2","It floated through-the chill air, barely perceptible.","",""
"dell","Noun","UNKNOWN","3268","2","Juraviel let him lead often and corrected him whenever he went wrong - which was not often any longer - and soon the pair came into the low dell called Caer'alfar: Elvenhome.","",""
"exhilarating","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3269","2","It was loud and rushing, exhilarating.","",""
"spirituality","Noun","UNKNOWN","3270","2","There is more to spirituality than piety, my friend.","",""
"assessment","Noun","B2","3271","2","Elbryan shook his head determinedly, somehow sure his companion's assessment was not correct.","",""
"elk","Noun","UNKNOWN","3272","2","The hunters would return with carcasses - elk, caribou, or white-tailed deer - slung on shoulder poles, and it seemed to the watching pair as if this hunt had been successful indeed!","",""
"disintegrate","Verb","UNKNOWN","3273","2","It is likely that all the invasion will disintegrate into separate groups, fighting one another as much as the folk of the kingdom.","",""
"stock","Noun","B2","3274","2","Expressions ran from excitement to awkward fear to blank amazement as the villagers took stock of the kills, especially the last carcass on the shoulder poles, a smallish humanoid form.","",""
"flapping","Noun","UNKNOWN","3275","2","The creature's ears, pointed at the top and with a loose flapping, fat lobe at the bottom, stuck out several inches from its head.","",""
"inward","Noun","UNKNOWN","3276","2","The woman shuddered when she considered the mouth, a tangle of greenish-yellow fangs, all crooked but each angled inward.","",""
"jowl","Noun","UNKNOWN","3277","2","The chin was narrow, but the jowls wide with muscle.","",""
"wrinkled","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3278","2","The dwarf's expression did not change, its pale, wrinkled face staring openmouthed as Pellimar hit it with a solid right cross.","",""
"myth","Verb","B2","3279","2","Goblins were little seen creatures; many considered them more myth than truth.","",""
"supper","Noun","UNKNOWN","3280","2","That discipline lasted only until the four took their supper, a bowl of lumpy, lukewarm porridge in the tight quarters of their small room, when Quintall talked of taking ""first watch.""","",""
"disperse","Verb","UNKNOWN","3281","2","0lwan nodded and the crowd gradually dispersed, one person taking a last, long look at the goblin, which was indeed fast turning gray.","",""
"goblinkind","Noun","UNKNOWN","3282","2","Next came a discussion, led by Brody Gentle, of goblinkind in general, from the numerous small goblins to the rare and dangerous disfigured fomorian giants.","",""
"doubtfully","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3283","2","""How do you know that?"" Elbryan asked doubtfully, and his tone seemed to hurt the girl.","",""
"intone","Verb","UNKNOWN","3284","2","He prayed with all his heart, wrapping the words around images of his mother, often intoning her name between lines of verse.","",""
"intertwine","Verb","UNKNOWN","3285","2","The horse angled near a second elm, its branches intertwined with the one near the giant, and Elbryan leaped away, running, surefooted, along one rain-slicked limb.","",""
"majority","Noun","B2","3286","2","The majority of Tinson's residents slept the day through, preferring the revelry of the night.","",""
"conquest","Noun","UNKNOWN","3287","2","Images of conquest flooded Quintall's every thought.","",""
"certainty","Noun","B2","3288","2","Avelyn knew with near certainty that this would be the last time he saw her, and likely the last time he'd see his father, as well.","",""
"sibling","Noun","B2","3289","2","His next youngest sibling was seven years his senior, and so he wasn't really close to any of them.","",""
"senior","Noun","B2","3290","2","There were several monks, men a few years Avelyn's senior, in the chamber above.","",""
"selfish","Adjective","B2","3291","2","The folk of Elkenbrook had never known such a huge gathering of goblins, could not conceive of the notion that the hateful, selfish creatures could ever band together in such numbers.","",""
"unified","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3292","2","Now the creature saw the time to organize its forces fully; to begin its unified attacks.","",""
"unintentional","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3293","2","Avelyn heard the slaps of wood, the unintentional groans, even an occasional cry from the younger students near the front.","",""
"frail","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3294","2","Now he knew how the elvish bows, so small and frail, could launch an arrow a hundred yards on a straight line.","",""
"rack","Verb","UNKNOWN","3295","2","But his words hardly seemed to calm Thagraine; quite the opposite, the man, obviously racked with guilt paced all the more furiously, slapping his hands together repeatedly.","",""
"overlapping","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3296","2","At first he thought them the borders of the known spheres, for he had heard theories of the universe as a series of overlapping, interlocking heavenly spheres, the invisible bubbles that held the layers of stars in place.","",""
"interlock","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3297","2","Its limbs were slender and long and its armor a silver shining coat of fine interlocking links.","",""
"brotherhood","Noun","UNKNOWN","3298","2","I knew the purest contemplation, the release of physical boundaries, the brotherhood with all the universe.","",""
"idealistic","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3299","2","All that the gentle and idealistic young man wanted was to serve God, to foster peace, to heal, and to comfort.","",""
"hoard","Noun","UNKNOWN","3300","2","To Avelyn Desbris, nothing in all the world, not the treasures of a dragon's hoard, nor the powers of a king, could outweigh that accomplishment.","",""