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"lemma","pos","cefr_level","coverage_rank","context_sentence","context_sentence_zh","definition_zh"
"abandoned","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3101","Frustrated, the ranger abandoned his bow and ran on, sword in hand.","",""
"stampede","Noun","UNKNOWN","3102","The stampede came to a skidding halt, the wild horses accepting riders, villagers.","",""
"haven","Noun","UNKNOWN","3103","Eventually, if they cannot find a haven, they will be killed, one at a time, perhaps, as was poor Cric, or perhaps the goblins will discover their camp in the night and slaughter them all.","",""
"unmistakable","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3104","If the tip of its blade was set upon the ground, the end of its balled hilt would not have reached Elbryan's waist, and the width of the blade was no more than the distance between the knuckle and first joint of Elbryan's smallest finger, but there was an unmistakable solidity and strength to the weapon, an aura of power.","",""
"sparks","Noun","UNKNOWN","3105","The mighty elvish weapon scored hit after hit, sparks flying as it banged hard against metal armor.","",""
"thorn","Noun","UNKNOWN","3106","They had become a large thorn in the side of the invading army, and no doubt the monstrous leaders in Dundalis and the other villages wanted to get the secretive band out in the open and deal with them once and for all.","",""
"lodestone","Noun","UNKNOWN","3107","""It is lodestone,"" Avelyn explained.","",""
"praying","Noun","UNKNOWN","3108","Avelyn lay across the centaur's back, staring more behind than ahead, praying for his companions.","",""
"hoping","Noun","UNKNOWN","3109","No other options; the ranger decided, and so he scrambled ahead, hoping to get a firm handhold, that he might propel Pony over him, over the stone, out to freedom in the dark night.","",""
"passageway","Noun","UNKNOWN","3110","Elbryan slammed hard, into the wall of the narrow passageway with his already broken arm.","",""
"volatile","Adjective","C1","3111","Elbryan looked at Bradwarden, and the centaur only shrugged, not about to disagree with the volatile friar's estimation of himself.","",""
"subject","Noun","A2","3112","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?","",""
"funny","Adjective","A2","3113","He noted that the sky had turned a funny color, a purplish, rosy hue the likes of which Avelyn had only seen at sunrise or sunset, and then only on the appropriate horizon.","",""
"influence","Noun","B1","3114","It had awakened, darkness rising, and already its influence was spreading throughout Corona.","",""
"organize","Verb","B1","3115","He should organize his friends - yes, that was the course, he decided.","",""
"satisfy","Verb","B1","3116","""What height must I attain to satisfy the judgment of Tuntun and the many other elves of like mind?","",""
"quality","Noun","B1","3117","Elbryan had that same impish quality about him as Mather, a love and luster of life, lurking just below the surface.","",""
"society","Noun","B1","3118","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?","",""
"background","Noun","B1","3119","He knew it was music, though it seemed too soft, too much in the background for him to actually hear it.","",""
"average","Adjective","B1","3120","He saw at once, though, that Jill was far beyond an average beginning student, was nearly.","",""
"social","Adjective","B1","3121","She would dress in the finest gowns and attend the highest social events in Palmaris, even in Ursal!","",""
"address","Verb","B1","3122","""Wait until they close,"" the ranger said again, addressing the whole group.","",""
"talent","Noun","B1","3123","I will use the stones and all my talents, and all my body in whatever course you set.","",""
"lonely","Adjective","B1","3124","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.","",""
"limit","Verb","B1","3125","The ranger reached in to the limit of his arm, to find that the sword was just out of range.","",""
"audience","Singular","B1","3126","She went in expecting a brewing row, but found instead that the mad friar, this time, had a fairly attentive audience.","",""
"wandering","Noun","UNKNOWN","3127","The tangible, corporeal body felt good to the wandering spirit.","",""
"rend","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3128","Hooves of music rend the gloom
Bearing Nightbird, know your doom!","",""
"horn","Noun","UNKNOWN","3129","They scrambled through the woods desperately, hearing horns from the town.","",""
"reddish","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3130","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.","",""
"humanlike","Noun","UNKNOWN","3131","The demon spread wide its black wings and reached back with one humanlike arm, claws extended toward the flowing lava, grabbing the power and channeling it.","",""
"devastating","Verb","UNKNOWN","3132","Every part of the demon was a weapon, devastating and deadly.","",""
"sickening","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3133","A sickening feeling washed over Elbryan.","",""
"scurry","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3134","She scurried away, suddenly uncomfortable.","",""
"stain","Verb","UNKNOWN","3135","Elbryan saw the dark stain near those hands.","",""
"strap","PastTense","UNKNOWN","3136","He retrieved his belt and dagger, which he had reverently placed right near his bed, and Elbryan felt powerful as he ceremoniously strapped the weapon about his waist.","",""
"birthday","Noun","UNKNOWN","3137","Next spring would bring his thirteenth birthday, the passage from childhood in the hardy land that was the northern wilderness.","",""
"wilderness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3138","Next spring would bring his thirteenth birthday, the passage from childhood in the hardy land that was the northern wilderness.","",""
"absence","Singular","UNKNOWN","3139","""Have you noticed the absence, of anything?""
Elbryan crinkled his brow.","",""
"muffle","Noun","UNKNOWN","3140","Elbryan tried to muffle his snicker; the girl hated that nickname, Jilly, though nearly everyone in town called her that.","",""
"nickname","Noun","UNKNOWN","3141","He screwed up his face, the ridiculous nickname sounding foolish in his ears.","",""
"preferred","Verb","UNKNOWN","3142","of stargazing placed a distant second on Avelyn's preferred list of duties.","",""
"softness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3143","He sensed their softness, so very inviting ...","",""
"oddly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3144","He put a hand to his chin, an oddly human gesture.","",""
"soaking","Verb","UNKNOWN","3145","Her eyes, huge eyes, were the richest and clearest blue Elbryan had ever seen, like great sponges soaking in the sights of the wide world and reflecting Jilseponie's every mood.","",""
"sadness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3146","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.","",""
"dismissively","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3147","The fat man sputtered something unintelligible and turned away, waving his hand dismissively.","",""
"vibrant","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3148","How much younger and more vibrant Annalisa had seemed!","",""
"piping","Noun","UNKNOWN","3149","Then they heard a distant piping, soft music, perfect melody.","",""
"legend","Noun","UNKNOWN","3150","The Forest Ghost was a common legend in the Timberlands.","",""
"enchanting","Noun","UNKNOWN","3151","So now here he was, in a land enchanting and terrifying, sharing the forest with these creatures that he could not understand and could not defeat.","",""
"sensible","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3152","His mind drifted up from the ridge, from the solid ground, from the sensible experiences of his existence into the unknown, exhilarating joy of spirituality.","",""
"turmoil","Noun","UNKNOWN","3153","Despite that turmoil, Elbryan found himself nodding.","",""
"horrifying","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3154","And then suddenly, it was gone, destroyed by a horrified, and horrifying, scream.","",""
"feverish","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3155","The dawn is not long away."" He started up the ridge at a feverish pace then, even scrambling on all fours at times, crunching through the thick carpet of fallen leaves.","",""
"crunch","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3156","The dawn is not long away."" He started up the ridge at a feverish pace then, even scrambling on all fours at times, crunching through the thick carpet of fallen leaves.","",""
"carpet","Noun","UNKNOWN","3157","Every time he gazed upon the white carpet, he wanted to take off his shoes and pants and run through it barefoot and bare legged, to feel its softness between his toes and brushing against his shins.","",""
"relish","Verb","UNKNOWN","3158","Pony had won that battle by accepting, even relishing, those private feelings, the warmth that washed over her whenever she looked upon Elbryan.","",""
"fading","Noun","UNKNOWN","3159","She looked at Avelyn curiously, her fear fast-fading.","",""
"barefoot","Verb","UNKNOWN","3160","He would run barefoot through the stones, would roll in them, would bask in his God.","",""
"advanced","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3161","The powrie advanced on the sobbing woman, its hand raised to deliver another heavy blow.","",""
"deciduous","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3162","Autumn was well advanced, and all the leaves of the deciduous trees, particularly the sugar maples, were bright with colors, shining red and orange and yellow, painting the ridge.","",""
"northeastern","Noun","UNKNOWN","3163","The month had turned to Parvespers, the last month of the autumn, when the Windrunner swept around the northeastern reach of the Mantis Arm, past Pireth Tulme and into the Gulf of Corona.","",""
"chatter","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3164","This was a place of natural noises: running streams, cackling birds, and chattering animals.","",""
"tones","Noun","UNKNOWN","3165","His heart pounded when he recognized his father's deep tones, though he couldn't make out what the man was saying.","",""
"prickly","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3166","Pony caught up to him, even passed him over that last expanse, leading the way through the tangle of two wide pines, pushing aside the prickly branches and bursting into a clearing right beside the returning party.","",""
"blank","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3167","His expression blank, he merely shrugged.","",""
"crook","Verb","UNKNOWN","3168","Elbryan walked a crooked path to the food and stubbornly salvaged what he could.","",""
"credence","Singular","UNKNOWN","3169","Avelyn's lack of initial response to the news that his mother had died had lent credence to Siherton's complaints.","",""
"oft","Noun","UNKNOWN","3170","This gloom that had come to Honce-the-Bear had come before in a definite shape and manner that was oft-told in the historical volumes at St.-Mere-Abelle.","",""
"derisive","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3171","Pony didn't miss her companion's derisive snort.","",""
"badger","Noun","UNKNOWN","3172","""Remember the badger?"" she asked quietly, stealing the boy's bluster.","",""
"snag","Verb","UNKNOWN","3173","Earlier that year, at the beginning of summer, some of the younger children had snagged a badger in a noose.","",""
"reluctantly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3174","He had met with Juraviel soon after his fireside discussion with his more conventional commanders, and the elf had reluctantly agreed to send a handful of his fellows south to warn Landsdown.","",""
"blazing","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3175","She envisioned herself as a light source, a blazing sun, rightful owner of this mortal coil, and she fought back.","",""
"olive","Noun","UNKNOWN","3176","Even from this distance, the elves could see the olive-green orbs sparkling with intensity, truly seeing the imagined foes.","",""
"competition","Singular","UNKNOWN","3177","Pony had told him many times that Kristeena was sweet for him, and the older girl, not viewing a ten-year-old as competition, had been charmed by the thought.","",""
"gesture","Noun","UNKNOWN","3178","He looked at Pony and winked, and was surprised when she returned the gesture with a serious frown.","",""
"voluminous","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3179","He had his hands in front of him, buried within his voluminous sleeves.","",""
"humble","Adjective","B2","3180","The bond had been particularly strong with Annalisa, a humble and spiritual woman, who had encouraged her youngest child to follow the path of God from his earliest recollections.","",""
"folds","Noun","UNKNOWN","3181","He nodded and put it back under the folds of his weathered robes, his expression more serious.","",""
"zone","Noun","UNKNOWN","3182","Back in St.-Mere-Abelle, he had seen Master Siherton create a magical dead zone while he and several others had tried to discern the powers of the giant amethyst crystal.","",""
"southeastern","Noun","UNKNOWN","3183","No land came in sight for three days, the Windjammer making a direct run to the southeastern point of the Gulf of Corona, the northern tip of the region known as the Mantis Arm.","",""
"solemn","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3184","The ceremony went off perfectly solemn yet joyous, ladies crying, men standing tall and handsome.","",""
"millennium","Noun","UNKNOWN","3185","Intertwined with the rocky cliffs of the southeastern coast, St.-Mere-Abelle had stood solemn and dark for nearly a millennium, with each generation of monks adding their toil and craftsmanship to the already huge structure.","",""
"toil","Noun","UNKNOWN","3186","He got his reward for his morning's toils when he returned to the bog to collect the tenth loaded basket.","",""
"underground","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3187","When the showers arrived, he and his fellow Preparer would be hidden underground, sheltered from the pelting meteors.","",""
"market","Verb","UNKNOWN","3188","Seven hundred monks lived here and another two hundred servants, many of them never leaving the place except to go on short visits, usually to market in the village of St.-Mere-Abelle, some three miles inland.","",""
"grueling","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3189","CHAPTER 8 The Preparer
The schedule was grueling, designed to find weakness and break those who were not fit for the daily rigors of the Order of St.-Mere-Abelle.","",""
"testing","Noun","UNKNOWN","3190","Eight years of formal study, eight years of grueling testing, had brought Avelyn to this point, one of twenty-five remaining of the two thousand twelve-year-olds who had begun the process, each desperately vying to gain admittance in this class of God's Year 816.","",""
"earliest","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3191","Elbryan paused and closed his eyes, remembering his earliest lessons, the axioms the elves had put to him so that he might view the world in a completely different manner.","",""
"divine","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3192","He pictured his mother on that day many years before when he had announced that he would enter St.-Mere-Abelle: the tears that had come to her; the smile, gentle, even divine.","",""
"eyelid","Noun","UNKNOWN","3193","But weariness overtook him, caught him where he sat, and brought his eyelids low.","",""
"mortality","Noun","UNKNOWN","3194","Under that sky that posed to me so many questions, I dismissed mortality, for I had become one with something that was eternal.","",""
"denial","Noun","UNKNOWN","3195","Images assaulted them, mingling with imagined scenes even more horrifying, and amid all of it welled utter denial, the hope against obvious reality that this simply could not be happening.","",""
"momentary","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3196","The giant plunged the spear down low instead, right into the boulder, and Elbryan was too surprised to seize the momentary opening and charge ahead.","",""
"sweetness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3197","The sweetness was there, but somehow just out of Jill's reach.","",""
"parting","Noun","UNKNOWN","3198","In the morning came the second painful parting.","",""
"windblown","Noun","UNKNOWN","3199","They twisted and gouged, floating about and through the bare windblown rocks of the Barbacan.","",""
"axis","Noun","UNKNOWN","3200","The tapestries covered the walls almost completely, allowing for windows and for racked displays of shining weapons: swords and spears, great axes, long daggers, and a myriad of pole arms with hooked blades and prodding tips that Avelyn did not know.","",""
1 lemma pos cefr_level coverage_rank context_sentence context_sentence_zh definition_zh
2 abandoned Adjective UNKNOWN 3101 Frustrated, the ranger abandoned his bow and ran on, sword in hand.
3 stampede Noun UNKNOWN 3102 The stampede came to a skidding halt, the wild horses accepting riders, villagers.
4 haven Noun UNKNOWN 3103 Eventually, if they cannot find a haven, they will be killed, one at a time, perhaps, as was poor Cric, or perhaps the goblins will discover their camp in the night and slaughter them all.
5 unmistakable Adjective UNKNOWN 3104 If the tip of its blade was set upon the ground, the end of its balled hilt would not have reached Elbryan's waist, and the width of the blade was no more than the distance between the knuckle and first joint of Elbryan's smallest finger, but there was an unmistakable solidity and strength to the weapon, an aura of power.
6 sparks Noun UNKNOWN 3105 The mighty elvish weapon scored hit after hit, sparks flying as it banged hard against metal armor.
7 thorn Noun UNKNOWN 3106 They had become a large thorn in the side of the invading army, and no doubt the monstrous leaders in Dundalis and the other villages wanted to get the secretive band out in the open and deal with them once and for all.
8 lodestone Noun UNKNOWN 3107 "It is lodestone," Avelyn explained.
9 praying Noun UNKNOWN 3108 Avelyn lay across the centaur's back, staring more behind than ahead, praying for his companions.
10 hoping Noun UNKNOWN 3109 No other options; the ranger decided, and so he scrambled ahead, hoping to get a firm handhold, that he might propel Pony over him, over the stone, out to freedom in the dark night.
11 passageway Noun UNKNOWN 3110 Elbryan slammed hard, into the wall of the narrow passageway with his already broken arm.
12 volatile Adjective C1 3111 Elbryan looked at Bradwarden, and the centaur only shrugged, not about to disagree with the volatile friar's estimation of himself.
13 subject Noun A2 3112 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?
14 funny Adjective A2 3113 He noted that the sky had turned a funny color, a purplish, rosy hue the likes of which Avelyn had only seen at sunrise or sunset, and then only on the appropriate horizon.
15 influence Noun B1 3114 It had awakened, darkness rising, and already its influence was spreading throughout Corona.
16 organize Verb B1 3115 He should organize his friends - yes, that was the course, he decided.
17 satisfy Verb B1 3116 "What height must I attain to satisfy the judgment of Tuntun and the many other elves of like mind?
18 quality Noun B1 3117 Elbryan had that same impish quality about him as Mather, a love and luster of life, lurking just below the surface.
19 society Noun B1 3118 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?
20 background Noun B1 3119 He knew it was music, though it seemed too soft, too much in the background for him to actually hear it.
21 average Adjective B1 3120 He saw at once, though, that Jill was far beyond an average beginning student, was nearly.
22 social Adjective B1 3121 She would dress in the finest gowns and attend the highest social events in Palmaris, even in Ursal!
23 address Verb B1 3122 "Wait until they close," the ranger said again, addressing the whole group.
24 talent Noun B1 3123 I will use the stones and all my talents, and all my body in whatever course you set.
25 lonely Adjective B1 3124 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.
26 limit Verb B1 3125 The ranger reached in to the limit of his arm, to find that the sword was just out of range.
27 audience Singular B1 3126 She went in expecting a brewing row, but found instead that the mad friar, this time, had a fairly attentive audience.
28 wandering Noun UNKNOWN 3127 The tangible, corporeal body felt good to the wandering spirit.
29 rend Gerund UNKNOWN 3128 Hooves of music rend the gloom Bearing Nightbird, know your doom!
30 horn Noun UNKNOWN 3129 They scrambled through the woods desperately, hearing horns from the town.
31 reddish Adjective UNKNOWN 3130 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.
32 humanlike Noun UNKNOWN 3131 The demon spread wide its black wings and reached back with one humanlike arm, claws extended toward the flowing lava, grabbing the power and channeling it.
33 devastating Verb UNKNOWN 3132 Every part of the demon was a weapon, devastating and deadly.
34 sickening Adjective UNKNOWN 3133 A sickening feeling washed over Elbryan.
35 scurry Gerund UNKNOWN 3134 She scurried away, suddenly uncomfortable.
36 stain Verb UNKNOWN 3135 Elbryan saw the dark stain near those hands.
37 strap PastTense UNKNOWN 3136 He retrieved his belt and dagger, which he had reverently placed right near his bed, and Elbryan felt powerful as he ceremoniously strapped the weapon about his waist.
38 birthday Noun UNKNOWN 3137 Next spring would bring his thirteenth birthday, the passage from childhood in the hardy land that was the northern wilderness.
39 wilderness Noun UNKNOWN 3138 Next spring would bring his thirteenth birthday, the passage from childhood in the hardy land that was the northern wilderness.
40 absence Singular UNKNOWN 3139 "Have you noticed the absence, of anything?" Elbryan crinkled his brow.
41 muffle Noun UNKNOWN 3140 Elbryan tried to muffle his snicker; the girl hated that nickname, Jilly, though nearly everyone in town called her that.
42 nickname Noun UNKNOWN 3141 He screwed up his face, the ridiculous nickname sounding foolish in his ears.
43 preferred Verb UNKNOWN 3142 of stargazing placed a distant second on Avelyn's preferred list of duties.
44 softness Noun UNKNOWN 3143 He sensed their softness, so very inviting ...
45 oddly Adverb UNKNOWN 3144 He put a hand to his chin, an oddly human gesture.
46 soaking Verb UNKNOWN 3145 Her eyes, huge eyes, were the richest and clearest blue Elbryan had ever seen, like great sponges soaking in the sights of the wide world and reflecting Jilseponie's every mood.
47 sadness Noun UNKNOWN 3146 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.
48 dismissively Adverb UNKNOWN 3147 The fat man sputtered something unintelligible and turned away, waving his hand dismissively.
49 vibrant Adjective UNKNOWN 3148 How much younger and more vibrant Annalisa had seemed!
50 piping Noun UNKNOWN 3149 Then they heard a distant piping, soft music, perfect melody.
51 legend Noun UNKNOWN 3150 The Forest Ghost was a common legend in the Timberlands.
52 enchanting Noun UNKNOWN 3151 So now here he was, in a land enchanting and terrifying, sharing the forest with these creatures that he could not understand and could not defeat.
53 sensible Adjective UNKNOWN 3152 His mind drifted up from the ridge, from the solid ground, from the sensible experiences of his existence into the unknown, exhilarating joy of spirituality.
54 turmoil Noun UNKNOWN 3153 Despite that turmoil, Elbryan found himself nodding.
55 horrifying Adjective UNKNOWN 3154 And then suddenly, it was gone, destroyed by a horrified, and horrifying, scream.
56 feverish Adjective UNKNOWN 3155 The dawn is not long away." He started up the ridge at a feverish pace then, even scrambling on all fours at times, crunching through the thick carpet of fallen leaves.
57 crunch Gerund UNKNOWN 3156 The dawn is not long away." He started up the ridge at a feverish pace then, even scrambling on all fours at times, crunching through the thick carpet of fallen leaves.
58 carpet Noun UNKNOWN 3157 Every time he gazed upon the white carpet, he wanted to take off his shoes and pants and run through it barefoot and bare legged, to feel its softness between his toes and brushing against his shins.
59 relish Verb UNKNOWN 3158 Pony had won that battle by accepting, even relishing, those private feelings, the warmth that washed over her whenever she looked upon Elbryan.
60 fading Noun UNKNOWN 3159 She looked at Avelyn curiously, her fear fast-fading.
61 barefoot Verb UNKNOWN 3160 He would run barefoot through the stones, would roll in them, would bask in his God.
62 advanced Adjective UNKNOWN 3161 The powrie advanced on the sobbing woman, its hand raised to deliver another heavy blow.
63 deciduous Adjective UNKNOWN 3162 Autumn was well advanced, and all the leaves of the deciduous trees, particularly the sugar maples, were bright with colors, shining red and orange and yellow, painting the ridge.
64 northeastern Noun UNKNOWN 3163 The month had turned to Parvespers, the last month of the autumn, when the Windrunner swept around the northeastern reach of the Mantis Arm, past Pireth Tulme and into the Gulf of Corona.
65 chatter Gerund UNKNOWN 3164 This was a place of natural noises: running streams, cackling birds, and chattering animals.
66 tones Noun UNKNOWN 3165 His heart pounded when he recognized his father's deep tones, though he couldn't make out what the man was saying.
67 prickly Adjective UNKNOWN 3166 Pony caught up to him, even passed him over that last expanse, leading the way through the tangle of two wide pines, pushing aside the prickly branches and bursting into a clearing right beside the returning party.
68 blank Adjective UNKNOWN 3167 His expression blank, he merely shrugged.
69 crook Verb UNKNOWN 3168 Elbryan walked a crooked path to the food and stubbornly salvaged what he could.
70 credence Singular UNKNOWN 3169 Avelyn's lack of initial response to the news that his mother had died had lent credence to Siherton's complaints.
71 oft Noun UNKNOWN 3170 This gloom that had come to Honce-the-Bear had come before in a definite shape and manner that was oft-told in the historical volumes at St.-Mere-Abelle.
72 derisive Adjective UNKNOWN 3171 Pony didn't miss her companion's derisive snort.
73 badger Noun UNKNOWN 3172 "Remember the badger?" she asked quietly, stealing the boy's bluster.
74 snag Verb UNKNOWN 3173 Earlier that year, at the beginning of summer, some of the younger children had snagged a badger in a noose.
75 reluctantly Adverb UNKNOWN 3174 He had met with Juraviel soon after his fireside discussion with his more conventional commanders, and the elf had reluctantly agreed to send a handful of his fellows south to warn Landsdown.
76 blazing Adjective UNKNOWN 3175 She envisioned herself as a light source, a blazing sun, rightful owner of this mortal coil, and she fought back.
77 olive Noun UNKNOWN 3176 Even from this distance, the elves could see the olive-green orbs sparkling with intensity, truly seeing the imagined foes.
78 competition Singular UNKNOWN 3177 Pony had told him many times that Kristeena was sweet for him, and the older girl, not viewing a ten-year-old as competition, had been charmed by the thought.
79 gesture Noun UNKNOWN 3178 He looked at Pony and winked, and was surprised when she returned the gesture with a serious frown.
80 voluminous Adjective UNKNOWN 3179 He had his hands in front of him, buried within his voluminous sleeves.
81 humble Adjective B2 3180 The bond had been particularly strong with Annalisa, a humble and spiritual woman, who had encouraged her youngest child to follow the path of God from his earliest recollections.
82 folds Noun UNKNOWN 3181 He nodded and put it back under the folds of his weathered robes, his expression more serious.
83 zone Noun UNKNOWN 3182 Back in St.-Mere-Abelle, he had seen Master Siherton create a magical dead zone while he and several others had tried to discern the powers of the giant amethyst crystal.
84 southeastern Noun UNKNOWN 3183 No land came in sight for three days, the Windjammer making a direct run to the southeastern point of the Gulf of Corona, the northern tip of the region known as the Mantis Arm.
85 solemn Adjective UNKNOWN 3184 The ceremony went off perfectly solemn yet joyous, ladies crying, men standing tall and handsome.
86 millennium Noun UNKNOWN 3185 Intertwined with the rocky cliffs of the southeastern coast, St.-Mere-Abelle had stood solemn and dark for nearly a millennium, with each generation of monks adding their toil and craftsmanship to the already huge structure.
87 toil Noun UNKNOWN 3186 He got his reward for his morning's toils when he returned to the bog to collect the tenth loaded basket.
88 underground Adjective UNKNOWN 3187 When the showers arrived, he and his fellow Preparer would be hidden underground, sheltered from the pelting meteors.
89 market Verb UNKNOWN 3188 Seven hundred monks lived here and another two hundred servants, many of them never leaving the place except to go on short visits, usually to market in the village of St.-Mere-Abelle, some three miles inland.
90 grueling Adjective UNKNOWN 3189 CHAPTER 8 The Preparer The schedule was grueling, designed to find weakness and break those who were not fit for the daily rigors of the Order of St.-Mere-Abelle.
91 testing Noun UNKNOWN 3190 Eight years of formal study, eight years of grueling testing, had brought Avelyn to this point, one of twenty-five remaining of the two thousand twelve-year-olds who had begun the process, each desperately vying to gain admittance in this class of God's Year 816.
92 earliest Adjective UNKNOWN 3191 Elbryan paused and closed his eyes, remembering his earliest lessons, the axioms the elves had put to him so that he might view the world in a completely different manner.
93 divine Adjective UNKNOWN 3192 He pictured his mother on that day many years before when he had announced that he would enter St.-Mere-Abelle: the tears that had come to her; the smile, gentle, even divine.
94 eyelid Noun UNKNOWN 3193 But weariness overtook him, caught him where he sat, and brought his eyelids low.
95 mortality Noun UNKNOWN 3194 Under that sky that posed to me so many questions, I dismissed mortality, for I had become one with something that was eternal.
96 denial Noun UNKNOWN 3195 Images assaulted them, mingling with imagined scenes even more horrifying, and amid all of it welled utter denial, the hope against obvious reality that this simply could not be happening.
97 momentary Adjective UNKNOWN 3196 The giant plunged the spear down low instead, right into the boulder, and Elbryan was too surprised to seize the momentary opening and charge ahead.
98 sweetness Noun UNKNOWN 3197 The sweetness was there, but somehow just out of Jill's reach.
99 parting Noun UNKNOWN 3198 In the morning came the second painful parting.
100 windblown Noun UNKNOWN 3199 They twisted and gouged, floating about and through the bare windblown rocks of the Barbacan.
101 axis Noun UNKNOWN 3200 The tapestries covered the walls almost completely, allowing for windows and for racked displays of shining weapons: swords and spears, great axes, long daggers, and a myriad of pole arms with hooked blades and prodding tips that Avelyn did not know.