"lemma","pos","cefr_level","coverage_rank","global_frequency","context_sentence","context_sentence_zh","definition_zh"
"destroying","Noun","A2","3101","2","Elbryan nodded; he had heard of the fierce powries and their reputation for destroying human ships.","",""
"tidy","Adjective","A2","3102","2","There could be only one answer, for no living creature, not even one of the great dragons of the north, could so tear this amount of ground in such an even, tidy manner.","",""
"character","Noun","A2","3103","2","Tuntun was wrong, Juraviel knew without any doubt at all; this one had character.","",""
"oak","Noun","A2","3104","2","Juraviel found him at dawn, curled in a hollow at the base of a wide oak.","",""
"symbol","Noun","A2","3105","2","They are to me the shining symbol of all the unanswered questions of human existence, of our place in this vast sky, of our purpose, of death itself.","",""
"impossible","Adjective","A2","3106","2","Here, high stones lined both sides of the trail, making passage off the path nearly impossible unless Elbryan took a circuitous route quite deep into the underbrush.","",""
"joke","Noun","A2","3107","2","Avelyn saw nothing at all humorous in the ridiculous joke, nor did the few crewmen close enough at hand to hear the insults.","",""
"lovely","Adjective","A2","3108","2","She went for the walk, and truly had a lovely time, for she found that Connor was as easy to talk to as he was to look, at.","",""
"ideal","Noun","A2","3109","2","For in the Ring Stones, the young man found his ideals satisfied.","",""
"identify","Infinitive","A2","3110","2","He had learned to identify the various plants and their properties, often medicinal.","",""
"chat","Verb","A2","3111","2","Such were Juraviel's methods, his enchanting and engrossing conversation techniques, that Elbryan hardly realized this to be perhaps the most important part of his training, these daily chats, anecdotal and enjoyable.","",""
"worried","Adjective","A2","3112","2","Adjonas turned a worried glance at Quintall.","",""
"introduction","Singular","A2","3113","2","He stopped as Elbryan came out from behind the tree, the ranger rightly sensing that this introduction could go on for some time.","",""
"attend","PastTense","A2","3114","2","She would dress in the finest gowns and attend the highest social events in Palmaris, even in Ursal!","",""
"fitful","Adjective","A2","3115","2","His sleep every night was fitful, tossing and turning even more than did the Windrunner on the rough swells.","",""
"dealing","Noun","A2","3116","2","His actions now carried serious consequences concerning his future dealings with his three companions.","",""
"safely","Adverb","A2","3117","2","Finally came the welcome sound of oars and the boat, all three safely aboard.","",""
"weakened","Adjective","A2","3118","2","She couldn't even talk, and her dirk, like her sword before it, slipped uselessly from her weakened hand.","",""
"considering","Noun","A2","3119","2","The implications were clear, considering the man's lewd manner, and Grady and Connor shared a laugh.","",""
"helplessness","Noun","A2","3120","2","The centaur understood what the man was feeling, the sense of his own loss those years before and the helplessness now in the face of a repeat of that disaster.","",""
"including","Noun","A2","3121","2","Even if he beat these two, others were coming fast, including the one with the glowing spike!","",""
"crimson","Noun","A2","3122","2","Soft blues and purples, vivid oranges and sometimes a deep crimson lined the night sky, lifting hearts and spirits.","",""
"mister","Noun","A2","3123","2","""Fill our sails, Mister Smealy,"" he instructed.","",""
"haze","Noun","A2","3124","2","All the crew rushed to the forward rails, and soon enough the gray haze became more substantial, became the undeniable outline of an island, conical in shape.","",""
"worthless","Adjective","A2","3125","2","Not even with me worthless husband - might that be why he threw me out!""","",""
"review","Verb","A2","3126","2","Avelyn knew that he could say nothing about that time until he had reviewed his words with the Father Abbot.","",""
"pattern","Noun","A2","3127","2","The young man continued for nearly an hour, his arms and weapon weaving ever more intricate patterns in the empty air.","",""
"unit","Noun","A2","3128","2","One by one, her sparring partners had been dispatched, usually painfully, until clot a man or woman in the unit desired to go against her.","",""
"uniform","Noun","A2","3129","2","Soon, goblin scouts were about him, walking through the trees, talking in their whining voices, complaining about this or that, about the fit of their uniforms or some particularly nasty commander who talked more with his whip than his voice.","",""
"personality","Noun","A2","3130","2","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.","",""
"hawk","Noun","A2","3131","2","""They'll come down like a mass o' swooping hawks,"" Bradwarden protested.","",""
"shrub","Noun","A2","3132","2","The land was relatively flat and brown, with sparse low shrubs poking here and there.","",""
"purposeful","Adjective","A2","3133","2","This was no accident but a purposeful attack on the bear.","",""
"passenger","Noun","A2","3134","2","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.","",""
"lair","Noun","A2","3135","2","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.","",""
"scoring","Noun","A2","3136","2","Another shot came thundering in, this one scoring a hit on Pireth Tulme's front wall, taking down some stones.","",""
"deserting","Noun","A2","3137","2","Soon Jill's hands were flapping inconsequentially at the powrie's barrel-like torso, her strength fast deserting her.","",""
"user","Noun","A2","3138","2","With practice, and more joinings, she could quickly rival all but the most powerful stone users of St.-Mere-Abelle","",""
"deserter","Noun","A2","3139","2","All of that was, of course, tempered by her realization that she was, in effect, a deserter.","",""
"lazy","Adjective","A2","3140","2","The sky brightened to a dull gray shortly before the dawn, another lazy snowstorm dropping scattered flakes that floated to and fro during their descent.","",""
"staggering","Adjective","A2","3141","2","The man fell away a couple of staggering steps, grabbed the back of a chair for support, and then fell over anyway, the chair tumbling down about him.","",""
"belonging","Noun","A2","3142","2","They gathered together their arrows and their belongings and set off at once, the centaur leading Elbryan deep into the forest, past the pine and the caribou moss, down a deep valley, then up its other side.","",""
"achieve","Verb","A2","3143","2","The greatest gift of the elves was this harmony the man had achieved, this joining of two philosophies, of two ways of looking at the world, of two ways to do battle.","",""
"platform","Noun","A2","3144","2","Mounted sidelong on a platform, the thing would have passed for a fair-sized ballista!","",""
"killer","Noun","A2","3145","2","She was sorry that Avelyn had been forced to act as thief and killer, sorry that this gentle man - and despite the barroom brawls, Pony knew Avelyn to be a gentle man - had been put into such an uncompromising position.","",""
"arguing","Noun","A2","3146","2","In mere hours, Bestesbulzibar covered the hundreds of miles to the base at Dundalis, where it found a rattled Gothra of the goblins and Maiyer Dek of the fomorian giants arguing fiercely.","",""
"protecting","Noun","A2","3147","2","Ye're smart enough to see that Pony needs little protecting.""","",""
"vine","Plural","A2","3148","2","Elbryan took the torch with him as he pushed aside the vines and entered the inner chamber.","",""
"device","Singular","A2","3149","2","Perhaps the stones served as a warning device to the masters back in St.-Mere-Abelle, a signal that Quintall was dead, that Quintall had failed.","",""
"shaken","Adjective","A2","3150","2","His only lament was that Pony seemed truly shaken by her return to this area.","",""
"bearish","Adjective","A2","3151","2","Elbryan let the boy down to Paulson's waiting grasp, and the ranger was touched by how gently the bearish man handled the youngster.","",""
"depend","Verb","A2","3152","2","To the small group whose very lives depended on absolute secrecy, there could have been no more unsettling possibility than that of a traitor in their midst.","",""
"lucky","Adjective","A2","3153","2","Avelyn could do nothing except pray that Elbryan and his riders were swift enough and lucky enough to get away.","",""
"growling","Adjective","A2","3154","2","The ominous growling increased tenfold, a hundredfold, deafening Avelyn, blocking the sounds of the dactyl's shrieks.","",""
"electricity","Noun","A2","3155","2","The demon's arms shot forward, fingers extended, and black tendrils of crackling electricity spouted from them, biting against the wall and running the length of the straight passage, nipping and snapping at Elbryan and Avelyn, at Pony and Bradwarden as they followed their friends around the bend.","",""
"shiny","Adjective","B1","3156","2","The texture of its skin was rough and thick, an armored hide, reddish in hue and shiny, as if lit by its own inner glow.","",""
"examine","Verb","B1","3157","2","Just a week before, Avelyn had melted a leg of one table while examining a ruby sprinkled with carnallite!","",""
"expedition","Singular","B1","3158","2","This would be the last time he remained behind when the hunters went off on the season's last and most important expedition.","",""
"sighting","Noun","B1","3159","2","The raid on Dundalis, the sightings of goblins and even giants, the evidence of many, earthquakes to the north of Andur'Blough Inninness - all pointed to the resurgence of the dactyl.","",""
"qualification","Singular","B1","3160","2","Elbryan's surprise at her qualification of the remark reflected clearly on his face.","",""
"mix","Noun","B1","3161","2","Piled in the emotional jumble were Elbryan's mixed feelings concerning the elves.","",""
"tunic","Noun","B1","3162","2","The shorter of the pair wore a light leather tunic and arm shields, metal sleeves hooked over the figure's thumbs and running from wrists to elbow.","",""
"primary","Adjective","B1","3163","2","On the ridge and in the vale beyond, the primary enemy became boredom.","",""
"gentleness","Noun","B1","3164","2","The kiss shifted, from curiosity to urgency, then back to gentleness.","",""
"falter","Verb","B1","3165","2","Without hesitation, for if he paused, he knew his courage surely would falter, Elbryan slipped out from behind the protection of the tree: Half walking, half crawling, he moved closer to the goblin, quickly covering a third of the distance.","",""
"ashen","Adjective","B1","3166","2","Carley dan Aubrey, one of the younger scouts, staggered toward him, his face ashen, both hands clenched firmly to his right side at his waist.","",""
"previously","Adverb","B1","3167","2","Pony remembered the building of the place, only two years previously.","",""
"divide","Verb","B1","3168","2","The class had been divided by birth dates; Avelyn and Quintall had been put, together solely because they had been born in the same week, and not for compatibility, either physical or emotional.","",""
"peacefully","Adverb","B1","3169","2","That is the vision that allowed Annalisa Desbris to pass on peacefully from this world.""","",""
"generous","Adjective","B1","3170","2","The bartender nodded, smiling, and gave his precious Cat - he still called her that - a generous and warm hug.","",""
"humor","Noun","B1","3171","2","He came to know aspects of Dansally that his companions would never think to look former witty sense of humor, tenderness, and her regrettable resignation for her station in life.","",""
"soil","Noun","B1","3172","2","The upheaval was recent, that much was perfectly clear, for the soil on the torn side of the ridge was loose and deep brown, pocked here and there by a root, but with no fresh, aboveground growth.","",""
"due","Adjective","B1","3173","2","Avelyn was outnumbered five to one - and those odds were only due to the fact that three other men were fighting on his side, or at least, against the mob that was moving against the monk.","",""
"pretend","Verb","B1","3174","2","Tuntun pretended not to notice.","",""
"defiant","Adjective","B1","3175","2","Soothing sounds, and that made defiant Elbryan panic even more.","",""
"candidate","Noun","B1","3176","2","For the four chosen Preparers candidates, Avelyn and Quintall, Thagraine and Pellimar - two students from the class of God's Year 815 - life was even more difficult.","",""
"supple","Noun","B1","3177","2","This creature's limbs didn't look skinny, any more than did the supple branches of a bending willow.","",""
"bending","Adjective","B1","3178","2","This creature's limbs didn't look skinny, any more than did the supple branches of a bending willow.","",""
"relative","Adjective","B1","3179","2","Juraviel had a response for that, a remark concerning the relative unpreparedness of Dundalis in the face of such knowledge.","",""
"strode","Noun","B1","3180","2","Before the startled young man could even ask how Belli'mar Juraviel might have come by his name, the creature turned and strode into the mist, disappearing from sight.","",""
"impulse","Noun","B1","3181","2","But the dactyl was not a stupid creature and could control its impulses, even those bent upon destruction, which the demon loved above all else.","",""
"unpleasant","Adjective","B1","3182","2","The ranger quickly removed his clothes, the grass feeling scratchy but not unpleasant to his feet.","",""
"gusting","Adjective","B1","3183","2","The weather was rough over the next few days - mercifully so, in Avelyn's estimation, because he and his companions were kept very busy, attending rigging, a dangerous yet thrilling exercise in the gusting winds, and crawling in the dark belowdecks, checking for leaks in the hull.","",""
"mess","Noun","B1","3184","2","It struck the bowl of stew, overturning it and making a mess of the meal.","",""
"behavior","Noun","B1","3185","2","For whatever had happened, today and in the days and weeks before, this stubborn behavior could only lead to disaster.","",""
"atmosphere","Noun","B1","3186","2","But she knew, too, the atmosphere of the Way, and the last thing in the world the young woman wanted was to make things difficult for Graevis and Pettibwa, her saviors.","",""
"champion","Noun","B1","3187","2","One in particular, handsomely dressed and well groomed, with light brown eyes that sparkled with intelligence and a calm demeanor that hinted at good breeding, nodded the young woman's way and smiled slightly, an invitation for Cat to name him as her champion.","",""
"contrast","Noun","B1","3188","2","His proper speech rang in sharp contrast to the street dialect of his parents.","",""
"reservation","Plural","B1","3189","2","Even skeptical Master Siherton, whatever reservations he continued to hold about Avelyn as a fellow human being, had to admit that the man was the obvious choice, the God-given choice, for Pimaninicuit.","",""
"bell","Noun","B1","3190","2","The bells of the abbey pealed repeatedly, drawing curious onlookers from the nearby village of St.-Mere-Abelle.","",""
"clicking","Adjective","B1","3191","2","Elbryan uttered a soft clicking sound, and Symphony responded by lifting his ears and nickering.","",""
"represent","Verb","B1","3192","2","They represented another side of the girl, a womanly side, sensual, sexual - a part that Cat's free and girlish spirit was not yet ready to admit.","",""
"vaguely","Adverb","B1","3193","2","Strange emotions swirled in Cat as he lightly touched her arm, vaguely familiar feelings but ones she had not felt in several years.","",""
"happiness","Noun","B1","3194","2","And so it was with a true jumble of emotions, a purely teenage churning of confusion, fear and warmth, happiness and the verge of terror, that the young woman, no longer Cat-the-Stray, drifted off to a sleep of the sweetest dreams and the starkest nightmares.","",""
"define","Verb","B1","3195","2","He was naked, at least from the belly up, with a powerful upper body, muscles clearly defined, and an arched back.","",""
"cheat","Verb","B1","3196","2","When the ways of merchants turn cheating,","",""
"awakening","Noun","B1","3197","2","Then he turned his attention to the awakening world about him.","",""
"occur","Verb","B1","3198","2","And so they fought, evenly matched, for a long while, poles sometimes slapping together so rapidly that it occurred to Elbryan that, if they had some kindling, they might light a fire from friction alone!","",""
"growth","Noun","B1","3199","2","With the elves, I felt a sense of personal growth, learning and training, perfecting my skills, always moving toward something better.","",""
"earthquake","Noun","B1","3200","2","The raid on Dundalis, the sightings of goblins and even giants, the evidence of many, earthquakes to the north of Andur'Blough Inninness - all pointed to the resurgence of the dactyl.","",""