"lemma","pos","cefr_level","coverage_rank","global_frequency","context_sentence","context_sentence_zh","definition_zh"
"diabolical","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3901","2","He ordered her to the left, toward the giant without the glowing spike, for he sensed that the spike held some diabolical power.","",""
"trudge","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3902","2","Toward it they went, trudging on, plowing through the heavy ash.","",""
"charged","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3903","2","Elbryan scrambled to untangle himself from Pony, and charged off behind the monk, the woman coming next, and bulky Bradwarden bringing up the rear.","",""
"dent","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3904","2","The arrow hit solidly, denting the armor plate and driving through, but not so deep as to cause any serious wound.","",""
"ramming","Noun","UNKNOWN","3905","2","Three quick strides later, the centaur was upon the giant, ramming hard into the behemoth's back.","",""
"gully","Noun","UNKNOWN","3906","2","Halfway along the trail through the gully, an ominous and familiar orange glow appeared","",""
"menacingly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3907","2","The rockman looked at Pony, then turned back fully upon Elbryan, red-striped fingers clenching the air menacingly.","",""
"teem","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3908","2","The dactyl hesitated at the sight, at the stone aglow with teeming magic.","",""
"wrath","Noun","B2","3909","2","The rockman moved closer and Bestesbulzibar lifted from the ground, hooking its powerful legs about Quintall, and then speeding the instrument of its wrath across the valley, above the heads of the cowering minions, and back to Aida.","",""
"sulfuric","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3910","2","Even from this great height, Elbryan and Pony could feel the intense heat, and the sulfuric stench was nearly overwhelming.","",""
"armband","Noun","UNKNOWN","3911","2","He took the green armband from his right arm, the one the elves said would defeat any poison, and tore it in two, handing one strip to Pony.","",""
"dripping","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3912","2","Tuntun flew away, back up toward the combatants, her slender daggers in hand, both dripping magma from Quintall's eyes.","",""
"whack","Verb","UNKNOWN","3913","2","Avelyn tried to whack with Tempest, but the demon understood the power of the ranger sword and would not allow the monk to bring it to bear.","",""
"grate","Noun","UNKNOWN","3914","2","The others followed without delay, and their hopes mounted when they came to a heavy grate, bars set floor to ceiling, blocking the passage.","",""
"swishing","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3915","2","Then, even worse for the fomorian, it got a swishing torch across the face as its partner tried to catch up to the scrambling ranger.","",""
"spew","Noun","UNKNOWN","3916","2","It came up fast through the hole in the floor at the side of the dais, rushed past the flowing lava quickly, spewing the red stone all about.","",""
"repertoire","Noun","UNKNOWN","3917","2","Avelyn desperately searched his magical repertoire, but it was Pony who struck next, thrusting forth the graphite rod and letting loose a bolt of streaking lightning, bouncing it off the, wall, angled perfectly to skip around the bend and bear down on the demon.","",""
"archway","Noun","UNKNOWN","3918","2","Up ahead, the corridor widened, like the top half of an hourglass, and then ended in a wall, broken only by a large archway, through which the demon dactyl scrambled.","",""
"budge","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3919","2","He did see Bradwarden, slamming repeatedly, stubbornly, at the doors, not budging them in the least.","",""
"stalagmite","Noun","UNKNOWN","3920","2","- a hundred feet, at least, two hundred-toward a floor of jagged stalagmites.","",""
"conduit","Noun","UNKNOWN","3921","2","Avelyn growled low and called to God, begging for more energy, channeling it, as pure a conduit of godly might as ever had stood upon Corona.","",""
"rotate","Verb","C1","3922","2","With a sickening crackle of bone, the creature's head rotated completely around and bowed, examining the second imperfection of its form, a scarred lump under its lower left shoulder blade.","",""
"starkness","Noun","C1","3923","2","The starkness of the scene from this vantage point, in this mounting light, amazed the companions.","",""
"buck","Noun","C1","3924","2","Elbryan hardly heard the sharp scolding his father offered, the boy's eyes basking in the sight, moving from the carcass of a caribou buck, to a deer, to a line of coneys, to ...","",""
"impetuous","Adjective","C1","3925","2","Their fathers, who had come forward to meet the impetuous children, to scold them again for being so far away from Dundalis, let the opportunity pass.","",""
"contradiction","Singular","C1","3926","2","That seeming contradiction had left Elbryan in a quandary.","",""
"intervene","Verb","C1","3927","2","When she wouldn't - couldn't - tell him anything about the staff-wielding stranger who had intervened in the inn, the ferocious monk had beaten her again, and now one of her eyes was swollen closed.","",""
"sustain","Verb","C1","3928","2","Pony couldn't sustain her smile as she watched him go, wondering if she had pushed him a little too hard.","",""
"simultaneously","Adverb","C1","3929","2","The staff connected simultaneously on the sword and the goblin's hand, knocking the weapon from the creature's grasp and launching it a dozen feet away.","",""
"grinding","Adjective","C1","3930","2","A grinding sound, the great gates sliding open, brought the young man from his contemplations.","",""
"ranking","Noun","C1","3931","2","Precious and thus the third ranking priest in the entire Abellican Church, had performed the ceremony himself!","",""
"cautious","Adjective","C1","3932","2","But even the great wound in the monster's belly fast closed, while Quintall's movements became more cautious, more dangerous.","",""
"counterpart","Noun","C1","3933","2","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.","",""
"overseer","Noun","C1","3934","2","Siherton's features befit his rank of class overseer, the disciplinarian of the newest brothers.","",""
"dedication","Singular","C1","3935","2","It was true enough; Avelyn's incredible dedication was fast becoming the talk of St.-Mere-Abelle.","",""
"leak","Verb","C1","3936","2","He felt the first tears leaking from his eyes and tried to deny them.","",""
"divert","Verb","C1","3937","2","None of it diverted Avelyn's attention from the wonders of the place, though he did listen somewhat, fearing to miss any questions directed his way.","",""
"distinction","Singular","C1","3938","2","Smealy as he had drowned the powrie, without distinction of the fact that the victim this time was not an evil dwarf but a human being.","",""
"explicit","Adjective","C1","3939","2","But his orders concerning Pimaninicuit had been explicit and unyielding: only those stones treated to retain their magic could be brought from the island.","",""
"sphere","Noun","C1","3940","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.","",""
"dense","Adjective","C1","3941","2","It was heavier than Avelyn had expected, quite solid and dense.","",""
"seemingly","Adverb","C1","3942","2","Pony and Chipmunk continued their wild ride, weaving about the pines, cutting sharp corners, Pony's sword flashing, Chipmurk's seemingly endless stream of daggers spinning out.","",""
"induce","Infinitive","C1","3943","2","Elbryan recognized the black, sappy poison, a pain - inducing product of a rare black birch tree.","",""
"span","Noun","C1","3944","2","In the span of a few unbelievable minutes, Elbryan's entire world had been thrown down.","",""
"threshold","Noun","C1","3945","2","On the charred threshold of one ruin, he saw a tiny corpse, a blackened ball.","",""
"empathy","Noun","C1","3946","2","But Elbryan felt that soft feeling - that sympathy, that empathy - and he knew then that he was not alone.","",""
"timber","Noun","C1","3947","2","He pushed aside a timber gingerly, when he heard the remaining roof groan in protest and went down to his knees, peering in.","",""
"scope","Noun","C1","3948","2","He found Thomas Ault and several other men next, and only then did the already weary youngster realize the scope of his task.","",""
"revelation","Plural","C1","3949","2","He found the many prayer rituals boring, even trite, in light of the revelations he was finding every night.","",""
"noon","Noun","C1","3950","2","The boy believed the sun to be in the west, halfway from noon to sunset.","",""
"mutual","Adjective","C1","3951","2","There was supposed to be no anger toward an opponent, only respect and mutual learning, but Quintall growled whenever the masters paired him against Avelyn.","",""
"vague","Adjective","C1","3952","2","Master Jojonah's instructions were vague at best, but Avelyn came to understand them in his heart.","",""
"nonetheless","Adjective","C1","3953","2","Nonetheless, Jojonah began to protest again, but Markwart cut him short.","",""
"remainder","Noun","C1","3954","2","He spent the remainder of the afternoon caught up in the sights and smells.","",""
"ironically","Adverb","C1","3955","2","The monk had found peace within himself, ironically, in the midst of a war, a battle that Avelyn knew justified the actions that had weighed so heavily on him these last years.","",""
"dimension","Plural","C1","3956","2","Now it was Elbryan's turn to laugh, as he discerned the dimensions of the true trap, then easily leaped it, leaving the last few feet of the path, the last expanse to the food, open to him.","",""
"indignantly","Adverb","C1","3957","2","""He fights like a human,"" Tuntun answered indignantly.","",""
"substitute","Gerund","C1","3958","2","Yet measured against the speed and agility of the elves, the fluidity of their movements, substituting perfect balance for lack of weight and strength, Elbryan truly felt a novice.","",""
"devil","Noun","C1","3959","2","She sensed that her hair had been much shorter then, back when she was young and all the world seemed a great adventure, back when the devils were just fireside stories to make, your skin tingle or imagined demons upon whom children could wage war.","",""
"thrive","Verb","C1","3960","2","Brothers Avelyn, Quintall, Pellimar, and Thagraine learned to survive, even thrive, on no more than four hours of sleep.","",""
"ironic","Verb","C1","3961","2","The thought was more than a little unsettling to gentle Avelyn Desbris, and he thought it ironic that Quintall's anger was no more than proof that he, and not the stocky, ferocious man, was the better choice for Pimaninicuit.","",""
"skeptical","Adjective","C1","3962","2","Elbryan's expression was skeptical.","",""
"lobby","Verb","C1","3963","2","Connor, sitting back on one of the plush chairs in the lobby, turned an absent gaze his companion's way.","",""
"acutely","Adverb","C1","3964","2","That garment held Avelyn's attention acutely, for he sensed that at least one of those jewels, a small ruby, was more than ornamental.","",""
"bouncing","Adjective","C1","3965","2","The four crewmen of the Windrunner's boat, which was bouncing noisily against the wooden dock, sat through it all with smirking faces, thoroughly amused and certainly not impressed.","",""
"despondently","Adverb","C1","3966","2","""I lost control,"" Elbryan said despondently.","",""
"yelling","Noun","C1","3967","2","The elf went into a headlong roll, right between the young man's widespread legs, came up to his feet behind the yelling and turning Elbryan, and reversed his momentum, stabbing both his poles back.","",""
"kidney","Noun","C1","3968","2","Elbryan was already into his responding turn but not far enough; and the elf's blades poked him hard in the kidneys.","",""
"frustrated","Adjective","C1","3969","2","To frustrated Jill's thinking, Gofflaw could use a throw or two across a room.","",""
"endure","Verb","C1","3970","2","But the old sea dog couldn't fathom the level of physical training these four men had endured.","",""
"pirate","Verb","C1","3971","2","""To be in sight of land would mean to be in sight of pirates."" He snorted and walked away, but paused, looked back, and motioned to them.","",""
"tossing","Noun","C1","3972","2","His sleep every night was fitful, tossing and turning even more than did the Windrunner on the rough swells.","",""
"gravely","Adverb","C1","3973","2","Avelyn nodded gravely, not liking where this was going.","",""
"elevate","Verb","C1","3974","2","This fifth target, some hundred yards away, was the first for which Elbryan had to elevate his shot.","",""
"precision","Noun","C1","3975","2","But that quickness and precision would not be enough, Elbryan told himself.","",""
"magnetic","Adjective","C1","3976","2","Lodestone was highly magnetic; its enchantment would send it fast to a metal surface.","",""
"refuge","Noun","C1","3977","2","She couldn't look at the man but kept her eyes locked on the stars, as if seeking refuge high above.","",""
"absent","Adjective","C1","3978","2","Connor, sitting back on one of the plush chairs in the lobby, turned an absent gaze his companion's way.","",""
"discard","Verb","C1","3979","2","Grady knew too much about Connor's nighttime pursuits for the nobleman to discard him, and though Grady had never even hinted at blackmail, Connor understood him well enough to fear him.","",""
"applaud","Verb","C1","3980","2","Grady silently applauded his conniving little sister, though his perception of her actions almost scared him; he had never thought her capable of such a beautifully treacherous play.","",""
"nonsense","Noun","C1","3981","2","It was all nonsense, all pretension, but in Honce-the-Bear in God's Year 821, that was the way things were done.","",""
"tenderness","Noun","C1","3982","2","Even worse, there was no love, no tenderness in his face as he stalked back to her, just heated desire, an almost angry passion.","",""
"magistrate","Noun","C1","3983","2","""We shall let the magistrate, Abbot Dobrinion, determine her fate in the morning.","",""
"vow","Noun","C1","3984","2","His solace came in duty, in his vow that this Dundalis and the two neighboring villages would not share the fate that had befallen his own village.","",""
"hostile","Adjective","C1","3985","2","Perhaps it was the boredom, the heat, or the tasteless provisions, but the crew grew increasingly uneasy, even hostile.","",""
"rational","Adjective","C1","3986","2","Gothra, no fool - at least by goblin standards - wanted to argue his point in logical, rational terms, but all that came from the goblin's mouth was an agonized scream as Bestesbulzibar reached out with one hand, clamping the goblin's held and pulling Gothra in.","",""
"privilege","Noun","C1","3987","2","Even the extra privileges did little to improve the mood of the increasingly surly crew.","",""
"hail","Noun","C1","3988","2","The rocky hail was light for some time, gradually increasing to the point where it punished the very ground of Pimaninicuit.","",""
"callous","Adjective","C1","3989","2","The cool and callous, way Quintall had dispatched the man, had murdered a human being, shook gentle Avelyn to his very bones.","",""
"efficiency","Noun","C1","3990","2","This was not the way of the Abellican Church, at least not in Avelyn's mind, and yet the efficiency of the executions of Taddy Sway and now of Bunkus Smealy made Avelyn suspect that Quintall was acting as he had been instructed by the masters before they had left port.","",""
"catalogue","Gerund","C1","3991","2","And so he worked, as he was instructed, penning the tale of his adventures in great detail, studying and cataloguing the newest stones, their type, their magic, their strength.","",""
"justification","Singular","C1","3992","2","There had to be a better way, he believed, and despite the potential for disaster, there could be no justification for murder.","",""
"precedent","Singular","C1","3993","2","Avelyn understood then - all of it - for it was not without precedent.","",""
"elevation","Singular","C1","3994","2","It was a difficult concept for Elbryan, because he had been brought up with the idea of community, and within that concept, such elevation of self was considered the worst of sins: pride.","",""
"varied","Adjective","C1","3995","2","Elbryan smiled wickedly as he considered those steep hillsides, all of varied angles and deep with virgin snow.","",""
"acceptance","Noun","C1","3996","2","Despite his acceptance of the behavior within Pireth Tulme, Jill recognized that he was a man of some honor.","",""
"fluidly","Adverb","C1","3997","2","It had come so fluidly, so fast, that Elbryan was still staring at the elf when he heard the third arrow hit.","",""
"embed","Verb","C1","3998","2","Paulson stepped inside the range and caught the spear by the shaft and rushed up its length, quickly and efficiently embedding his sword deep in the creature's chest.","",""
"absently","Adverb","C1","3999","2","""I hear the birds,"" he answered absently.","",""
"consistency","Noun","C1","4000","2","The noise increased - by the volume and consistency of the splashing, Elbryan figured there must be about a half dozen bipedal creatures approaching.","",""