"lemma","pos","cefr_level","coverage_rank","global_frequency","context_sentence","context_sentence_zh","definition_zh"
"outweigh","Verb","UNKNOWN","3301","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.","",""
"troublesome","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3302","2","For the adults, the specter of the goblins brought a sobering wariness and then a troublesome distraction.","",""
"lively","Adjective","B2","3303","2","The moment ended all too soon, Cat-the-Stray tuning back to the bustle of the lively room about her.","",""
"rust","Noun","UNKNOWN","3304","2","Pony left Avelyn's side then, rusting to join with Elbryan.","",""
"retaliation","Singular","UNKNOWN","3305","2","Elbryan was over him in an instant, more to protect him from the angry crowd than in any fear of retaliation.","",""
"scenario","Noun","B2","3306","2","Pony sympathized with the young man, but logically, this was the best scenario they could have hoped for.","",""
"salvage","Noun","UNKNOWN","3307","2","Elbryan walked a crooked path to the food and stubbornly salvaged what he could.","",""
"disgustedly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3308","2","Jojonah looked to Siherton, who was shaking his head disgustedly.","",""
"vain","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3309","2","If he won now, then his friends, all of them, would not have died in vain.","",""
"curve","Noun","B2","3310","2","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.","",""
"genuine","Adjective","B2","3311","2","Again, the fears passed, lost in a swirl of warmth as he looked at Pony's shining blue eyes, at her smile, as genuine and joyful as anything Elbryan had ever seen.","",""
"joyful","Adjective","B2","3312","2","Again, the fears passed, lost in a swirl of warmth as he looked at Pony's shining blue eyes, at her smile, as genuine and joyful as anything Elbryan had ever seen.","",""
"ruffle","Verb","UNKNOWN","3313","2","Elbryan growled softly and brought both his hands up to ruffle his light brown hair.","",""
"horrified","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3314","2","And then suddenly, it was gone, destroyed by a horrified, and horrifying, scream.","",""
"swarming","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3315","2","The couple jumped apart and to their feet, staring wide-eyed down the long slope to the village, at the swarming forms, at the large plume of smoke -","",""
"initiative","Noun","B2","3316","2","This was an action of a rogue goblin chieftain, perhaps, or one of the many powrie raiding parties, acting on their own initiative, bringing misery to the wretched humans.","",""
"formation","Singular","B2","3317","2","He would gather together his scouts, perhaps even call in the older scouts from the vale, and charge down into Dundalis in tight formation, anchoring the defense.","",""
"bedsheets","Noun","UNKNOWN","3318","2","That logical, adult part of Pony - the part that knew that the time of fending off nightmares with bedsheets was long past - told her without doubt that Dundalis could not survive.","",""
"catastrophe","Noun","UNKNOWN","3319","2","I may die soon following this course before me, but out here, at one with my spirit and my nature, on the edges of catastrophe, I have lived many times more than most will ever know.","",""
"clobber","Verb","UNKNOWN","3320","2","The man's mind whirled through the possibilities, all jumbled with the horror that he had erred, that he was about to get clobbered.","",""
"valiant","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3321","2","And then Olwan came flying back into sight, falling in a broken heap on the road right in the midst of the valiant fighters.","",""
"getting","Noun","UNKNOWN","3322","2","Paulson drew out his large sword and motioned for Cric to go in at his side, while Chipmunk was to go to the higher ground around to the right, getting an angle for his dagger throws.","",""
"mockery","Noun","UNKNOWN","3323","2","As if in a grotesque mockery of that hope, a goblin marched around that corner, bearing down on the girl.","",""
"skidding","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3324","2","The call brought the sprinting lad to a skidding halt.","",""
"jut","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3325","2","Elbryan grimaced, and Carley whimpered and nearly vomited, when Elbryan's hand brushed against the broken tip of a spear jutting from Carley's side.","",""
"overcoat","Noun","UNKNOWN","3326","2","He tore off his overcoat and pulled open his leather vest, quickly unbuttoning the sleeves of his white shirt.","",""
"flop","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3327","2","The creature went berserk, kicking and thrashing, flopping like a landed fish.","",""
"temperament","Noun","UNKNOWN","3328","2","Physically, by all accounts, he was the image of his father in Graevis' younger days, but by Cat's estimation, Grady could not have been more different than Graevis in temperament.","",""
"firework","Noun","B2","3329","2","They were opposites in temperament, as well: Avelyn calm and reverent, always in control, and Quintall a ""firework,"" as Master Siherton, the class overseer, often appropriately referred to him.","",""
"disgust","Verb","UNKNOWN","3330","2","Elbryan shook his head in disgust, but he reminded himself to keep a measure of respect.","",""
"gauge","Noun","UNKNOWN","3331","2","Dosey interrupted, his tales only for an occasional belch; so lost was he in his own sense of importance that he hardly bothered to gauge the monk's reaction.","",""
"noncommittally","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3332","2","The man with the broken arm shrugged noncommittally, then turned to the bartender, who likewise had no answers.","",""
"overt","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3333","2","It was no secret that Siherton favored Quintall among this most important class, but the man's overt insult of Avelyn, the choice of every other master - and reportedly of Father Abbot Markwart as well - surprised him.","",""
"amiss","Noun","UNKNOWN","3334","2","Jojonah looked back at the courtyard, to Avelyn at work as always as though nothing was amiss.","",""
"macabre","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3335","2","He tried to keep a mental note of his macabre collection, tried to match it against the people of Dundalis by sorting their names house by house.","",""
"despise","Verb","UNKNOWN","3336","2","""I despise his inhumanity,"" replied Siherton.","",""
"inhumanity","Noun","UNKNOWN","3337","2","Was it, as Siherton insisted, the young man's apparent inhumanity?","",""
"smug","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3338","2","That smug look by the ranger spurred the proud Quintall into a charge.","",""
"stairwell","Noun","UNKNOWN","3339","2","Jill looked straight ahead as she made for the door to the stairwell that would get her down to her room.","",""
"guarantee","Verb","B2","3340","2","His reentry would be guaranteed, but his position as a Preparer - though he had no idea that he would be offered such a position or even that there was such a thing - would be lost.","",""
"syllable","Noun","UNKNOWN","3341","2","The syllables came clear to him, though they joined into words he could not understand, distant melodic sounds he somehow recognized as part of the earth itself.","",""
"offense","Noun","B2","3342","2","Elbryan smiled wryly at Bradwarden before the fearsome centaur could take offense.","",""
"testament","Noun","UNKNOWN","3343","2","Was Avelyn, perhaps, a higher standard, a shadowy mirror, held up before all the monks of St.-Mere-Abelle, a testament of true faith that seemed so rare in these times, even in the holy abbey?","",""
"cushiony","Noun","UNKNOWN","3344","2","When the tittering pair finally left, Jill was sitting on the edge of the great cushiony bed, wearing only a simple silk nightgown that was too low cut, both front and back, and didn't go nearly far enough down her legs.","",""
"trinket","Noun","UNKNOWN","3345","2","The sailors cared nothing for this all-important mission, Avelyn realized, beyond their payment of gold - and whatever other trinkets Father Abbot Markwart had included in the bargain.","",""
"adorn","Verb","UNKNOWN","3346","2","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.","",""
"pragmatism","Noun","UNKNOWN","3347","2","Tol bowed his head, his face contorting as he struggled, pragmatism against conscience.","",""
"altogether","Adverb","B2","3348","2","Elbryan dismissed the notion altogether; he was on the eastern edge of the Moorlands by now, not so far from human settlements.","",""
"stool","Noun","UNKNOWN","3349","2","chamber, a five-foot-square cubicle with a single stool, which doubled as a table for Avelyn's candle, and a cot - little more than a flat board and a blanket - that folded down from one wall.","",""
"farewell","Noun","UNKNOWN","3350","2","Suspicious, but wise enough to keep his mouth shut, Avelyn bid farewell to Adjonas and the others - though not a man aboard the Windrunner regretted the departure of the three monks - and went ashore.","",""
"deserving","Adjective","B2","3351","2","The Abellican Church, the ancient scriptures, promised heaven to those deserving, and who could be more deserving than gentle and generous Annalisa Desbris?","",""
"sniffle","Noun","UNKNOWN","3352","2","Still the tears came; every so often his even tone was broken by a sniffle or a sob.","",""
"compose","Verb","B2","3353","2","Finally, after more than an hour, Avelyn composed himself and sat back on the cot, taking several deep breaths to fight away the last of the sobs.","",""
"splendor","Noun","UNKNOWN","3354","2","Avelyn tried to keep his head bowed, his eyes to the floor, as befitted his lowly station, but he couldn't help notice some of the splendors that surrounded him as he followed Master Jojonah through the winding corridors of the Abbot's Maze, the most private and revered place in all of St.-Mere-Abelle, and one that a first-year novice would certainly not expect to visit.","",""
"enwrap","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3355","2","Scenes of the Halo, the heavenly gift, enwrapping all the others, an oval because of the angle at which it was portrayed.","",""
"unfold","Verb","B2","3356","2","Elbryan's brow furrowed as he considered the words, as their implications began to unfold before him.","",""
"blasphemous","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3357","2","For Avelyn, this was a most sacred mission, the most important duty of the Abellican Church, and to profane it so by indulging in a shipboard orgy, was surely blasphemous.","",""
"odor","Noun","UNKNOWN","3358","2","The room inside was well lit, though Avelyn saw no torches and didn't smell the usual odor of burning wood.","",""
"pretense","Noun","UNKNOWN","3359","2","It was the end, the end of hope, of any pretense of godliness.","",""
"ecstasy","Noun","UNKNOWN","3360","2","There was something most sacred, yet particularly unmysterious, and thus unholy, in all of this, a tingling of ecstasy combined with a slightly foul taste that Avelyn Desbris could not ignore.","",""
"arcing","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3361","2","Elbryan let fly a wide-arcing left hook as he spun back toward the elf.","",""
"tile","Noun","UNKNOWN","3362","2","Elbryan tried hard to get past his monk friend, then, to take up the lead and close tile distance to the monster.","",""
"alien","Noun","B2","3363","2","He talked of the humours of the body joining together with the alien humours of the stones to create the seemingly magical reaction.","",""
"carrion","Noun","UNKNOWN","3364","2","She heard the cawing of the birds - carrion birds, she knew.","",""
"lumber","Noun","UNKNOWN","3365","2","The monsters' take of lumber would not have been useful; the spruce and pines were too short for catapults, too wet and sappy for wood fires, and too pliable for any construction.","",""
"survivor","Noun","B2","3366","2","Into the night, the four survivors went, stumbling blindly, separated, two and two, with a third of their party dead.","",""
"guttural","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3367","2","But nothing else came to her - not the whimper of a survivor, not the whining, grating voice of a goblin, not the guttural grunts of the fomorian giants.","",""
"decidedly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3368","2","The beam lifted an inch and shifted to the side, but Pony could not maintain its weight and it came down heavily, with a decidedly final thud.","",""
"sunlight","Noun","UNKNOWN","3369","2","He found that he believed her, and he walked back out into the sunlight truly relieved, but not in the way that the others, particularly Quintall, could ever have guessed.","",""
"preferable","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3370","2","For the boy who had just witnessed such carnage and loss, the semiconscious state was preferable.","",""
"tearing","Noun","B2","3371","2","Elbryan jerked fiercely, once and then again, the tearing jolts straightening the agonized fomorian.","",""
"crushed","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3372","2","Goblins and powries scattered or were crushed beneath the charge, a hundred wild horses stampeding along the ravine.","",""
"vulture","Plural","UNKNOWN","3373","2","Surely all the world had fallen to ruin; surely all the people were dead, were being pecked and torn by vultures.","",""
"feast","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3374","2","Only the vultures, dozens and dozens, some circling overhead, most on the ground feasting, tearing at skin that had been warm to Pony's touch just the day before, pecking at eyes that had locked with her own, shared gaze and shared thought.","",""
"peck","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3375","2","Surely all the world had fallen to ruin; surely all the people were dead, were being pecked and torn by vultures.","",""
"bedraggle","Verb","UNKNOWN","3376","2","Jill was too bedraggled to blush or even to care.","",""
"unbelievable","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3377","2","In the span of a few unbelievable minutes, Elbryan's entire world had been thrown down.","",""
"northernmost","Noun","UNKNOWN","3378","2","Finally they got behind the back wall of the northernmost house in the village, just beneath the forested slope.","",""
"slack","Noun","UNKNOWN","3379","2","- but offering no energy to arms that hung slack at his side or to legs that seemed suddenly as if they each weighed a hundred pounds - the young man, feeling very much a little lost boy, walked home.","",""
"carralee","Noun","UNKNOWN","3380","2","Carralee Ault, Pony's cousin, Elbryan realized, for she was the only baby in town.","",""
"fondness","Noun","B2","3381","2","Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans.","",""
"bumbling","Noun","UNKNOWN","3382","2","Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans.","",""
"spade","Noun","UNKNOWN","3383","2","He put his sword in his belt, found a spade; and began to dig.","",""
"suffice","Verb","UNKNOWN","3384","2","That would have to suffice.","",""
"underneath","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3385","2","So he ran on, hauling bodies, peeking under rubble, kicking aside piles of dead goblins to see who might be underneath.","",""
"stamen","Noun","UNKNOWN","3386","2","Even Tuntun was impressed by his stamina.","",""
"adept","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3387","2","He remembered Mather at the start of the legendary ranger's career, a bumbling boy no more adept and probably not even as resourceful as this Elbryan.","",""
"nag","Verb","UNKNOWN","3388","2","Then another thought nagged at the young man, a notion that he had heard this song before, though he could not place it..","",""
"fairy","Noun","UNKNOWN","3389","2","The teasing fairy song, remaining at the very edge of his consciousness, led Elbryan on for many minutes.","",""
"circular","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3390","2","It was fairly circular, perhaps eight feet in diameter.","",""
"distaste","Noun","UNKNOWN","3391","2","Avelyn scrunched his face with distaste and disbelief.","",""
"coarse","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3392","2","The coarse image burned in Avelyn's mind.","",""
"seamanship","Noun","UNKNOWN","3393","2","Avelyn could not keep up with his three companions in the matters of fighting or seamanship; and in the religious training, the young brother grew more and more frustrated.","",""
"latitude","Noun","UNKNOWN","3394","2","Elbryan didn't know exactly where Andur'Blough Inninness was located, but he suspected they were somewhere in the northern latitudes of Corona, beyond the Wilderlands border of Honce-the-Bear.","",""
"reputed","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3395","2","He knew its reputed properties, of course, but he had never attempted to use them.","",""
"protege","Noun","UNKNOWN","3396","2","For Juraviel's anxiety was clearly etched on his fine features - how could it have been otherwise when he had been speaking to his protégé Elbryan about this very subject not a week's time past?","",""
"core","Noun","B2","3397","2","To see such human frailty in the masters of St.-Mere-Abelle touched the very core of Avelyn's faith.","",""
"retrieval","Noun","UNKNOWN","3398","2","All that should have mattered was the retrieval of the stones.","",""
"daytime","Noun","UNKNOWN","3399","2","The daytime training was not as easy or as inspiring for Avelyn.","",""
"frigid","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3400","2","In addition, all four were taught the ways of the sea, spending many hours on a small boat rocking in the waves on the rough, frigid waters of All Saints Bay.","",""