"lemma","pos","cefr_level","coverage_rank","global_frequency","context_sentence","context_sentence_zh","definition_zh"
"astronomical","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2701","3","They studied the Halo, the charts that determined the astronomical data which would indicate the time of the showers.","",""
"girdle","Noun","UNKNOWN","2702","3","Perhaps he would shine in the heavens above, a fifth light on the girdle of Progos-Behemoth!","",""
"groove","Noun","UNKNOWN","2703","3","Looking closer, Avelyn noted grooves in the wall.","",""
"lever","Verb","UNKNOWN","2704","3","Jill did see that a detachment of six soldiers was at the catapult, three working the levers, three desperately trying to hold a handful of powries at bay.","",""
"effortlessly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","2705","3","He understood the command and willed himself off the ground, drifting effortlessly toward the ceiling.","",""
"whispering","Noun","B2","2706","3","To the left came a titter, a tiny voice whispering softly.","",""
"tenfold","Noun","UNKNOWN","2707","3","The ominous growling increased tenfold, a hundredfold, deafening Avelyn, blocking the sounds of the dactyl's shrieks.","",""
"hidden","Adjective","B2","2708","3","When he was gone, Master Jojonah replaced the stones, closed the case, then went to the wall and moved the hidden switch to lock it fast.","",""
"slanting","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2709","3","A slanting ray cut in through the smoke, a single shaft of light that beckoned the girl back to the land of the living.","",""
"multitude","Noun","UNKNOWN","2710","3","Elbryan took it and, ignoring the multitude of questions that again swirled in his thoughts, silently followed.","",""
"stiffen","Verb","B2","2711","3","The elf straightened and stiffened, and leaned forward over the lunging boy's head and shoulders.","",""
"uncertain","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2712","3","Torn and uncertain, the ranger fitted an arrow to Hawkwing.","",""
"exhaustion","Singular","UNKNOWN","2713","3","Mercifully, Elbryan's grief had brought with it exhaustion, and the boy had found some sleep.","",""
"moist","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2714","3","It was warm; Elbryan felt that first, felt a soft, moist sensation gently touching all his skin.","",""
"transfer","Verb","B2","2715","3","News that she would soon be transferred to Pireth Vanguard far to the north, did little to change Jill's sullen mood.","",""
"lace","Noun","UNKNOWN","2716","3","Now, seeing her adorned in a white gown of satin and lace, her long, thick blond mane pinned up on one side and hanging loose on the other, she seemed made for royalty.","",""
"chief","Adjective","B2","2717","3","Juraviel, Elbryan's chief sponsor with Lady Dasslerond, took it lightly.","",""
"casting","Noun","B2","2718","3","The moon was above the easternmost boughs, casting slanted rays upon him, and he realized how foolish he had been and how vulnerable he now was.","",""
"flustered","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2719","3","He looked at the flustered young monk, then across the deck at the other three.","",""
"soothing","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2720","3","Soothing sounds, and that made defiant Elbryan panic even more.","",""
"pirouette","Singular","UNKNOWN","2721","3","Sometimes they held hands, and other times they let go long enough for every other elf to turn a graceful pirouette.","",""
"navigate","Verb","UNKNOWN","2722","3","Elbryan still could not navigate this area, but he was gaining some understanding.","",""
"dread","Noun","B2","2723","3","As the year progressed, as Avelyn further separated himself from the other three candidate Preparers, he came to dread his daytime matches against any of them, particularly Quintall.","",""
"mishap","Verb","UNKNOWN","2724","3","Inside, Avelyn glimpsed Siherton and Jojonah with the Father Abbot, the old man livid about the mishap in the stone room.","",""
"severe","Adjective","B2","2725","3","Thagraine and Avelyn exchanged grave looks, given the man's uncharacteristic tone and the severe look on Quintall's face.","",""
"procedure","Noun","B2","2726","3","Sometimes that work entailed exhaustive study, reading text after text and reciting procedures so many times in rapid succession that Avelyn would often continue reciting them after he had gone to sleep.","",""
"distinguish","Verb","B2","2727","3","Their fear isolates them, and they often cannot distinguish friend from foe.","",""
"rival","Adjective","B2","2728","3","By the third year, Master Siherton also became invaluable as a mediator between the two rivals from the class of God's Year 816, coaxing Quintall into easing up on his jealousy of Avelyn.","",""
"astonish","Verb","UNKNOWN","2729","3","But in the weekly sparring contests, Jill released enough enemies from her memories to carry her through with a ferocity that had astonished her superiors.","",""
"vigorously","Adverb","UNKNOWN","2730","3","The hard-headed powrie shook its head vigorously, lips flapping.","",""
"accusing","Adjective","B2","2731","3","Its head snapped about, an accusing glare falling over the trembling goblin.","",""
"urgently","Adverb","B2","2732","3","So they went on, even more urgently, accepting the grate as a sure sign that they were in an important area, probably the dactyl's own.","",""
"onlooker","Noun","UNKNOWN","2733","3","The bells of the abbey pealed repeatedly, drawing curious onlookers from the nearby village of St.-Mere-Abelle.","",""
"surf","Noun","UNKNOWN","2734","3","As he neared the pounding surf, Avelyn shifted the amber into the hand holding the malachite and brought forth its powers as well.","",""
"horizontally","Adverb","UNKNOWN","2735","3","Elbryan presented his long pole horizontally in front of him; the elf responded by crossing his two smaller poles, replicas of slender elvish swords, in the air before him.","",""
"wharf","Noun","UNKNOWN","2736","3","A new wharf had been constructed, reaching far enough out into the bay so that the Windrunner could dock.","",""
"drip","Verb","UNKNOWN","2737","3","Avelyn's brown robes were tattered and dripping; he had the stench of burned hair about him.","",""
"dunk","Noun","UNKNOWN","2738","3","He put Elbryan's head under the liquid, brought him up, sputtering, then dunked him again.","",""
"semiconscious","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2739","3","For the boy who had just witnessed such carnage and loss, the semiconscious state was preferable.","",""
"mossy","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2740","3","He was on a mossy bank, a gentle slope that put his head comfortably above his feet.","",""
"aroma","Noun","UNKNOWN","2741","3","Elbryan's instincts - something about the air, perhaps, the aroma told him this was not the slope leading out of Dundalis up to the ridgeline, the slope where he had met the ...","",""
"discomfort","Noun","UNKNOWN","2742","3","The crew were blaming the monks for their discomfort, for this whole journey.","",""
"perpetual","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2743","3","Each day seemed as the last, an existence of perpetual watch and work.","",""
"proved","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2744","3","He started to run, first left, then up, then, when that course proved too difficult, back to the right, all the while calling out for his father or mother or for anyone.","",""
"bony","Noun","UNKNOWN","2745","3","Its limbs were incredibly slender, but they weren't bumpy and bony like Jilseponie's had been when she was much younger.","",""
"solidity","Noun","UNKNOWN","2746","3","Far from it; there was a sureness, a fluid solidity to the creature that warned Elbryan this tiny foe would be more difficult than any of the goblins he had battled, perhaps more difficult even than the giant.","",""
"treetop","Noun","UNKNOWN","2747","3","Elbryan had the distinct feeling the mist and the treetops were somehow connected.","",""
"raw","Adjective","B2","2748","3","The elf politely kept the question to himself, though, understanding the wounds were too raw in this young one.","",""
"brook","Noun","UNKNOWN","2749","3","This grove - every flower, every bush, every tree and stone, and the trickling brook that crossed it - was something more than the ordinary forests of the region.","",""
"angrily","Adverb","UNKNOWN","2750","3","Cric started to respond, eagerly and angrily, it seemed to Elbryan, but the tall man went silent as Paulson stormed back over to the fire.","",""
"godliness","Noun","UNKNOWN","2751","3","It was the end, the end of hope, of any pretense of godliness.","",""
"considerably","Adverb","B2","2752","3","Juraviel's smile calmed Elbryan considerably.","",""
"anxiety","Noun","B2","2753","3","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?","",""
"conduct","Noun","B2","2754","3","Had they heeded their own code of conduct, the powries would have been repulsed.","",""
"stoically","Adverb","UNKNOWN","2755","3","Even when giant footsteps were noted mingled in with those of the wretched smaller humanoids, the village leaders only shrugged stoically and began sharpening their long broadswords and heavy axes.","",""
"bobbing","Noun","UNKNOWN","2756","3","Avelyn finally reached Pellimar and hooked his arm around the bobbing man's shoulder.","",""
"beacon","Noun","UNKNOWN","2757","3","They are sparkles of unanswerable wonder, and, too, the beacons of hope.","",""
"ragged","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2758","3","Elbryan rolled his breeches up over his knees - not that the worn and ragged pants would stay that way for long!","",""
"singsong","Noun","UNKNOWN","2759","3","""Yes, mad brother Avelyn Desbris,"" she replied in the same singsong voice,","",""
"solstice","Noun","UNKNOWN","2760","3","By his reckoning, the winter solstice had passed, and he knew Dundalis, or what was left of the village, was likely under several feel of snow.","",""
"hardship","Noun","UNKNOWN","2761","3","And, again as befitted the race, they were undeniably hardy, tall and square shouldered, accustomed to hardship.","",""
"chilly","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2762","3","Thus it went for the bulk of the morning, for the bulk of every morning: the boy moving carefully about the chilly bog, collecting ten baskets of milk-stones.","",""
"leafy","Noun","UNKNOWN","2763","3","With the aid of a slanting sunbeam poking down through a break in the leafy boughs, he then spotted a series of nearly translucent trip lines, of height ranging from ankle to knee, blocking one long straight section of the trail.","",""
"zip","PastTense","UNKNOWN","2764","3","Something zipped by him, just under his chin.","",""
"entangle","Gerund","UNKNOWN","2765","3","He twisted his staff around the man's arm, hooking him under the armpit, stepped with his left foot across his body behind the man's entangled side, then heaved with all his strength, launching the wretch into the air to land heavily on his back and the back of his head.","",""
"coward","Noun","UNKNOWN","2766","3","Only a coward would shoot from the boughs.","",""
"tantalizing","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2767","3","He found, however, that as soon as his left arm extended, his fist flying so tantalizing near Tuntun's swaying head, that his moment of control had passed.","",""
"isolated","Adjective","B2","2768","3","He felt so alone and isolated, felt as if he would have been better off had these vile elves not come and rescued him from the fomorian.","",""
"sip","Noun","UNKNOWN","2769","3","She smiled at him again, pushed the wineglass, from which she had not sipped, back in front of him, and took her leave.","",""
"rein","Noun","UNKNOWN","2770","3","Elbryan slipped down from Symphony and handed his reins to Bradwarden.","",""
"fluidity","Noun","UNKNOWN","2771","3","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.","",""
"recognizable","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2772","3","The monk's body was hardly recognizable, a charred, smoldering thing.","",""
"frequent","Adjective","B2","2773","3","The noble visitors to Palmaris mostly stayed at the more haughty establishments, those near or within the duke's castle, but for those who knew, for the lesser merchants and the frequent wanderers, there was no better place in the world than Fellowship Way.","",""
"coo","PastTense","UNKNOWN","2774","3","hair aside, and gently kissed the nape of her neck, the soft kiss turning slowly more urgent, a harder kiss, a gentle bite, and when she cooed quietly, a harder bite still.","",""
"smirk","Noun","B2","2775","3","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.","",""
"tray","Noun","UNKNOWN","2776","3","Pettibwa was forever laughing, dancing with her tray from one table to the next.","",""
"buttock","Noun","UNKNOWN","2777","3","One arm slipped down to the back of her bare leg, then up under the nightshirt, over the smooth skin of her buttocks, gently up her back, bracing her as Elbryan slowly shifted her down to the ground.","",""
"unsuspecting","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2778","3","And it was all done in such good fun that neither Graevis nor any suitor of her unsuspecting dance partner ever seemed to care.","",""
"unthreatening","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2779","3","The young woman closed her eyes and felt the gentle, unthreatening stroke on her hair.","",""
"subtly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","2780","3","One of his senses subtly called out a warning to him.","",""
"tow","Noun","UNKNOWN","2781","3","Adjonas gave a curt nod, and Quintall paced by him, the other three monks in tow.","",""
"inspired","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2782","3","The young woman made her way around the back of the inn, down a dark alley that inspired no fear, and up a gutter, to the one section of Fellowship Way's roof that was not slanted.","",""
"slug","Verb","UNKNOWN","2783","3","Jill changed tactics and began slugging the dwarf in the face instead, then poking for its eyes.","",""
"gag","Verb","UNKNOWN","2784","3","It was a dagger, small but nasty, and thrown perfectly to hit the gagged and bound woman right in the throat, just under her jawbone.","",""
"salute","Noun","UNKNOWN","2785","3","Elbryan gave a salute to that place on the forest's edge where the stallion had disappeared, a motion of respect and understanding that he and Symphony had their own separate lives but were joined now.","",""
"rooftop","Noun","UNKNOWN","2786","3","It was up on that rooftop, under a sky that was streaked by clouds and stars, that Connor first mentioned the prospect of marriage.","",""
"civilize","Verb","UNKNOWN","2787","3","Were the fifteen Holy Orders of God, the rules of righteousness, truly God inspired, or were they merely rules of keeping order within a civilized society?","",""
"leverage","Noun","UNKNOWN","2788","3","The man was impossibly strong, his stocky frame and low center of gravity giving him the leverage he needed to punish Avelyn endlessly.","",""
"unsettling","Noun","UNKNOWN","2789","3","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.","",""
"ferocious","Adjective","B2","2790","3","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.","",""
"isle","Noun","UNKNOWN","2791","3","What Avelyn focused on, therefore, was the destination, the isle itself.","",""
"stud","Verb","UNKNOWN","2792","3","Then Avelyn saw the reason, saw clearly the powrie's studded bracers, glowing fiercely with enchantment.","",""
"garment","Noun","UNKNOWN","2793","3","His hand came up and unlaced her cloak; and she let the garment drop without protest, cool air on her skin.","",""
"crop","Verb","B2","2794","3","The crack of the crop brought Jojonah's attention back to the scene at hand.","",""
"glisten","Verb","UNKNOWN","2795","3","The ceremony began before dawn, intensified as the sun glistened on the horizon across the waters, then went on and on, one prayer after another, each song louder than the previous.","",""
"disturb","Verb","B2","2796","3","The pair slowed as they approached, knowing that to disturb Paulson usually meant a slap on the head.","",""
"curt","Noun","UNKNOWN","2797","3","Adjonas gave a curt nod, and Quintall paced by him, the other three monks in tow.","",""
"skittish","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2798","3","And to a deer, perhaps the most skittish creature of all ...","",""
"twitch","Gerund","UNKNOWN","2799","3","The deer's head came up, ears twitching, scanning; Elbryan's smile vanished.","",""
"uneven","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2800","3","Elbryan was expected to bathe daily, to keep his clothing clean, and since his beard was splotchy and uneven, not yet that of a man, to keep his face clean shaven.","",""