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"unlock","Verb","UNKNOWN","4001","Jill had never even heard of the magic stones before, let alone used one, but now she felt as if she could handle them fairly well, as if their secrets had been unlocked to her in the blink of an eye.","",""
"exploding","Verb","UNKNOWN","4002","""Not so hard a task!"" Master Jojonah said suddenly, exploding with delight.","",""
"travels","Noun","UNKNOWN","4003","Take care in your travels, my young friend, for you may soon be lost!""
Avelyn retracted his hand a few inches, wondering if he was being a bit foolish here.","",""
"dense","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4004","It was heavier than Avelyn had expected, quite solid and dense.","",""
"due","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4005","""All in your due time,"" he said softly.","",""
"tile","Noun","UNKNOWN","4006","He marveled at the loose structure of the wood, at the density of the higher room's tile floor.","",""
"registered","Verb","UNKNOWN","4007","He was beyond them before that dangerous notion fully registered, drifting higher, through the next ceiling into an empty room, then through that ceiling and the next and the next and the next, this last one much thicker.","",""
"spots","Noun","UNKNOWN","4008","He couldn't think of any defensible spots nearby, but perhaps he could strengthen this one.","",""
"promises","Noun","UNKNOWN","4009","He remembered in incredible detail: all that he had been, all the promises of his mortal life.","",""
"alien","Noun","UNKNOWN","4010","He talked of the humours of the body joining together with the alien humours of the stones to create the seemingly magical reaction.","",""
"seemingly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4011","He talked of the humours of the body joining together with the alien humours of the stones to create the seemingly magical reaction.","",""
"induce","Infinitive","UNKNOWN","4012","He even compared what had happened to Avelyn with the tablets given to a monk with a stomachache to induce a belch or a fart.","",""
"melting","Verb","UNKNOWN","4013","As he listened, Avelyn felt the mystery melting around him.","",""
"instructor","Noun","UNKNOWN","4014","His evenings, to his surprise, were most often spent with Tuntun, for the female had been the primary instructor, and friend, of Mather, a man about whom Elbryan desperately wanted to learn more.","",""
"select","Noun","UNKNOWN","4015","""You should be among those select few who make the journey,"" Master Jojonah declared, and the weight of the statement drew Avelyn back to him.","",""
"carrion","Noun","UNKNOWN","4016","CHAPTER 6 Carrion Birds
She came back to consciousness never expecting to see the wide sky again.","",""
"beckon","Verb","UNKNOWN","4017","It caressed him and beckoned him.","",""
"lumber","Noun","UNKNOWN","4018","She followed it as if in a dream, gingerly reaching up to touch the piece of lumber that had fallen to partially block the hole.","",""
"listening","Noun","UNKNOWN","4019","She settled back and sat very still, listening intently, not even daring to breathe.","",""
"survivor","Noun","UNKNOWN","4020","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.","",""
"guttural","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4021","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","4022","They had no idea if that passage down below led anywhere, after all, and the eight-foot leap would be decidedly more difficult coming up the angled walkway.","",""
"sunlight","Noun","UNKNOWN","4023","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.","",""
"thickly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4024","Pony only saw a couple from this angle, a goblin and an older woman, but the stench of death hung as thickly in the air as the smoke from the fires.","",""
"preferable","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4025","For the boy who had just witnessed such carnage and loss, the semiconscious state was preferable.","",""
"tearing","Noun","UNKNOWN","4026","Elbryan jerked fiercely, once and then again, the tearing jolts straightening the agonized fomorian.","",""
"vulture","Plural","UNKNOWN","4027","Surely all the world had fallen to ruin; surely all the people were dead, were being pecked and torn by vultures.","",""
"circling","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4028","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","4029","Surely all the world had fallen to ruin; surely all the people were dead, were being pecked and torn by vultures.","",""
"bedraggle","Verb","UNKNOWN","4030","Jill was too bedraggled to blush or even to care.","",""
"dried","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4031","Elbryan sat up and rubbed his face, noting the cut and dried blood on one of his hands.","",""
"span","Noun","UNKNOWN","4032","In the span of a few unbelievable minutes, Elbryan's entire world had been thrown down.","",""
"unbelievable","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4033","In the span of a few unbelievable minutes, Elbryan's entire world had been thrown down.","",""
"northernmost","Noun","UNKNOWN","4034","Even from this distance, fifty yards from the northernmost point of the village, Elbryan felt in his heart that no one could have survived such a disaster.","",""
"slack","Noun","UNKNOWN","4035","His face ashen, his heart pounding -
- 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.","",""
"threshold","Noun","UNKNOWN","4036","On the charred threshold of one ruin, he saw a tiny corpse, a blackened ball.","",""
"carralee","Noun","UNKNOWN","4037","Carralee Ault, Pony's cousin, Elbryan realized, for she was the only baby in town.","",""
"timber","Noun","UNKNOWN","4038","He pushed aside a timber gingerly, when he heard the remaining roof groan in protest and went down to his knees, peering in.","",""
"spoon","Noun","UNKNOWN","4039","In her hand she clutched her heavy wooden spoon.","",""
"saple","Gerund","UNKNOWN","4040","CHAPTER 7 The Blood of Mather
""The blood of Mather!"" scoffed Tuntun, an elf maiden so slight of build that she could easily hide behind a third-year sapling.","",""
"defiant","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4041","Soothing sounds, and that made defiant Elbryan panic even more.","",""
"fondness","Noun","UNKNOWN","4042","Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans.","",""
"bumbling","Noun","UNKNOWN","4043","Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans.","",""
"spade","Noun","UNKNOWN","4044","He put his sword in his belt, found a spade; and began to dig.","",""
"scope","Noun","UNKNOWN","4045","He found Thomas Ault and several other men next, and only then did the already weary youngster realize the scope of his task.","",""
"suffice","Verb","UNKNOWN","4046","That would have to suffice.","",""
"underneath","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4047","He found a tall pine with low-hanging branches and slipped underneath them into the natural tent.","",""
"stamina","Noun","UNKNOWN","4048","Even Tuntun was impressed by his stamina.","",""
"sapling","Noun","UNKNOWN","4049","He had to leap away instead, far out to the side, crashing through twigs and saplings, for the boulder superheated, turned red, and then melted away right below him!","",""
"career","Noun","UNKNOWN","4050","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.","",""
"adept","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4051","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.","",""
"limited","Verb","UNKNOWN","4052","Only the keenest of eyes could have picked him out within that blocking canopy, but of course, his field of vision likewise was severely limited.","",""
"fairy","Noun","UNKNOWN","4053","The teasing fairy song, remaining at the very edge of his consciousness, led Elbryan on for many minutes.","",""
"circular","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4054","It was fairly circular, perhaps eight feet in diameter.","",""
"dancer","Noun","UNKNOWN","4055","But this - "" She held her hand out to the revelry, to the half-naked dancer who, as if on cue, tumbled from the table.","",""
"distaste","Noun","UNKNOWN","4056","Avelyn scrunched his face with distaste and disbelief.","",""
"coarse","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4057","She knew, as did all the gathering, that there was no possible way she could have stumbled into such a coarse trap had not a bit of magic been worked.","",""
"candidate","Noun","UNKNOWN","4058","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.","",""
"seamanship","Noun","UNKNOWN","4059","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","4060","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.","",""
"variety","Noun","UNKNOWN","4061","They learned how to tie ropes in a variety of ways, knots necessary for the many uses aboard a sailing vessel.","",""
"knot","Noun","UNKNOWN","4062","They learned how to tie ropes in a variety of ways, knots necessary for the many uses aboard a sailing vessel.","",""
"reputed","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4063","He knew its reputed properties, of course, but he had never attempted to use them.","",""
"security","Noun","UNKNOWN","4064","There was security in that, Avelyn came to realize, but also responsibility.","",""
"core","Noun","UNKNOWN","4065","To see such human frailty in the masters of St.-Mere-Abelle touched the very core of Avelyn's faith.","",""
"retrieval","Noun","UNKNOWN","4066","All that should have mattered was the retrieval of the stones.","",""
"positions","Noun","UNKNOWN","4067","Toward his fellow Preparers, young men he would compete against for the coveted two positions of those who would actually step onto the island of Pimaninicuit, Avelyn felt no rivalry.","",""
"brightness","Noun","UNKNOWN","4068","During the long hours put in at night, not one of the other three came close to him; they were still mired in charting the stars when Avelyn had moved on to the specific humours that caused the ""magical"" reaction, having already passed through the recognition of the stones by touch as well as sight and the recognition of their potential intensity by their brightness, shape, and hue.","",""
"daytime","Noun","UNKNOWN","4069","The daytime training was not as easy or as inspiring for Avelyn.","",""
"revelation","Plural","UNKNOWN","4070","He found the many prayer rituals boring, even trite, in light of the revelations he was finding every night.","",""
"sunrise","Noun","UNKNOWN","4071","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.","",""
"noon","Noun","UNKNOWN","4072","The boy believed the sun to be in the west, halfway from noon to sunset.","",""
"frigid","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4073","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.","",""
"barehand","PastTense","UNKNOWN","4074","For the first year, they would study barehanded techniques, punching and grappling.","",""
"pounding","Noun","UNKNOWN","4075","And through it all, barehanded and with weapons, they would square off against each other, pounding on each other relentlessly.","",""
"mutual","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4076","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.","",""
"superiority","Noun","UNKNOWN","4077","He stood with an air of superiority, posture perfect, hand on gilded rapier.","",""
"serpent","Noun","UNKNOWN","4078","In most of the maneuvers, the monks were supposed to pull their punches, but Quintall often blasted the breath from Avelyn; there was no striking above the shoulders allowed, but more than once, Quintall knifed a ""serpent hand"" across Avelyn's throat, dropping him to his knees, gasping for breath.","",""
"eliminate","Verb","UNKNOWN","4079","The slips had become too common; Avelyn honestly believed Quintall meant to eliminate the competition.","",""
"goose","Noun","UNKNOWN","4080","Quintall's grin was certainly as far from Godlike as anything Avelyn had ever seen, and the fact that their training with weapons, where wounds could easily become more severe, was not far away, brought goose bumps to the scholarly young man.","",""
"cocky","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4081","Who might this leader of the herd be to inspire such uncharacteristic respect from cocky Bradwarden?","",""
"text","Noun","UNKNOWN","4082","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.","",""
"vague","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4083","Master Jojonah's instructions were vague at best, but Avelyn came to understand them in his heart.","",""
"twinkle","Noun","UNKNOWN","4084","Soon the sky was clear above him, the first stars twinkling into view.","",""
"pet","Noun","UNKNOWN","4085","""The war goes well, my pet,"" the dactyl went on.","",""
"types","Noun","UNKNOWN","4086","There were nearly fifty different types at the abbey, each with its own particular properties, and each individual stone with its own particular intensity.","",""
"factor","Noun","UNKNOWN","4087","Was their mission the overriding factor here, for if they attacked and were beaten back, killed, or captured, then who would go on to the smoking mountain to stand against the demon dactyl?","",""
"ascension","Noun","UNKNOWN","4088","There were in the abbey no more than four other monks, three of them masters and one Father Abbot Markwart himself, who could so distinguish magical intensity, and that fact had been the determining factor in Dalebert Markwart's ascension to the highest rank, for his chief rival could not determine magical intensity in individual stones.","",""
"dreary","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4089","He set out from the abbey one dark and dreary morning, riding an ash-gray mare, not swift of hoof but long in heart.","",""
"staircase","Noun","UNKNOWN","4090","""Finished already?"" Grady called as he descended the wide, sweeping staircase of House Battlebrow, the most renowned brothel in all of Palmaris.","",""
"eavesdrop","Noun","UNKNOWN","4091","Avelyn tried hard not to eavesdrop, but he did catch snatches of the conversation, mostly Siherton complaining vigorously that this was against strict procedure.","",""
"unintentionally","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4092","""Not a test, but a show,"" Jojonah argued, * unintentionally lifting his voice.","",""
"upraise","Verb","UNKNOWN","4093","Finally, Father Abbot Markwart halted the conversation with an upraised hand.","",""
"awestruck","Verb","UNKNOWN","4094","From the trees behind Elbryan, Pony and Avelyn watched awestruck.","",""
"register","Verb","UNKNOWN","4095","""You have used the stones?""
It took a long moment for Avelyn even to register the question.","",""
"chrysotile","Noun","UNKNOWN","4096","He held out his left hand and opened it to show Avelyn three stones: malachite, ringed with various shades of green; shining, polished amber; and a silvery piece of chrysotile, the largest of the three resembling a sheet of straight bars, long and narrow lying side by side.","",""
"bars","Noun","UNKNOWN","4097","The others followed without delay, and their hopes mounted when they came to a heavy grate, bars set floor to ceiling, blocking the passage.","",""
"disparate","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4098","Avelyn considered the sight from two widely disparate viewpoints.","",""
"nonetheless","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4099","Nonetheless, Jojonah began to protest again, but Markwart cut him short.","",""
"gleam","Noun","UNKNOWN","4100","Father Abbot Markwart appeared wickedly intense, the gleam in his eyes seeming almost maniacal, and certainly frightening.","",""
1 lemma pos cefr_level coverage_rank context_sentence context_sentence_zh definition_zh
2 unlock Verb UNKNOWN 4001 Jill had never even heard of the magic stones before, let alone used one, but now she felt as if she could handle them fairly well, as if their secrets had been unlocked to her in the blink of an eye.
3 exploding Verb UNKNOWN 4002 "Not so hard a task!" Master Jojonah said suddenly, exploding with delight.
4 travels Noun UNKNOWN 4003 Take care in your travels, my young friend, for you may soon be lost!" Avelyn retracted his hand a few inches, wondering if he was being a bit foolish here.
5 dense Adjective UNKNOWN 4004 It was heavier than Avelyn had expected, quite solid and dense.
6 due Adjective UNKNOWN 4005 "All in your due time," he said softly.
7 tile Noun UNKNOWN 4006 He marveled at the loose structure of the wood, at the density of the higher room's tile floor.
8 registered Verb UNKNOWN 4007 He was beyond them before that dangerous notion fully registered, drifting higher, through the next ceiling into an empty room, then through that ceiling and the next and the next and the next, this last one much thicker.
9 spots Noun UNKNOWN 4008 He couldn't think of any defensible spots nearby, but perhaps he could strengthen this one.
10 promises Noun UNKNOWN 4009 He remembered in incredible detail: all that he had been, all the promises of his mortal life.
11 alien Noun UNKNOWN 4010 He talked of the humours of the body joining together with the alien humours of the stones to create the seemingly magical reaction.
12 seemingly Adverb UNKNOWN 4011 He talked of the humours of the body joining together with the alien humours of the stones to create the seemingly magical reaction.
13 induce Infinitive UNKNOWN 4012 He even compared what had happened to Avelyn with the tablets given to a monk with a stomachache to induce a belch or a fart.
14 melting Verb UNKNOWN 4013 As he listened, Avelyn felt the mystery melting around him.
15 instructor Noun UNKNOWN 4014 His evenings, to his surprise, were most often spent with Tuntun, for the female had been the primary instructor, and friend, of Mather, a man about whom Elbryan desperately wanted to learn more.
16 select Noun UNKNOWN 4015 "You should be among those select few who make the journey," Master Jojonah declared, and the weight of the statement drew Avelyn back to him.
17 carrion Noun UNKNOWN 4016 CHAPTER 6 Carrion Birds She came back to consciousness never expecting to see the wide sky again.
18 beckon Verb UNKNOWN 4017 It caressed him and beckoned him.
19 lumber Noun UNKNOWN 4018 She followed it as if in a dream, gingerly reaching up to touch the piece of lumber that had fallen to partially block the hole.
20 listening Noun UNKNOWN 4019 She settled back and sat very still, listening intently, not even daring to breathe.
21 survivor Noun UNKNOWN 4020 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.
22 guttural Adjective UNKNOWN 4021 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.
23 decidedly Adverb UNKNOWN 4022 They had no idea if that passage down below led anywhere, after all, and the eight-foot leap would be decidedly more difficult coming up the angled walkway.
24 sunlight Noun UNKNOWN 4023 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.
25 thickly Adverb UNKNOWN 4024 Pony only saw a couple from this angle, a goblin and an older woman, but the stench of death hung as thickly in the air as the smoke from the fires.
26 preferable Adjective UNKNOWN 4025 For the boy who had just witnessed such carnage and loss, the semiconscious state was preferable.
27 tearing Noun UNKNOWN 4026 Elbryan jerked fiercely, once and then again, the tearing jolts straightening the agonized fomorian.
28 vulture Plural UNKNOWN 4027 Surely all the world had fallen to ruin; surely all the people were dead, were being pecked and torn by vultures.
29 circling Adjective UNKNOWN 4028 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.
30 peck Gerund UNKNOWN 4029 Surely all the world had fallen to ruin; surely all the people were dead, were being pecked and torn by vultures.
31 bedraggle Verb UNKNOWN 4030 Jill was too bedraggled to blush or even to care.
32 dried Adjective UNKNOWN 4031 Elbryan sat up and rubbed his face, noting the cut and dried blood on one of his hands.
33 span Noun UNKNOWN 4032 In the span of a few unbelievable minutes, Elbryan's entire world had been thrown down.
34 unbelievable Adjective UNKNOWN 4033 In the span of a few unbelievable minutes, Elbryan's entire world had been thrown down.
35 northernmost Noun UNKNOWN 4034 Even from this distance, fifty yards from the northernmost point of the village, Elbryan felt in his heart that no one could have survived such a disaster.
36 slack Noun UNKNOWN 4035 His face ashen, his heart pounding - - 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.
37 threshold Noun UNKNOWN 4036 On the charred threshold of one ruin, he saw a tiny corpse, a blackened ball.
38 carralee Noun UNKNOWN 4037 Carralee Ault, Pony's cousin, Elbryan realized, for she was the only baby in town.
39 timber Noun UNKNOWN 4038 He pushed aside a timber gingerly, when he heard the remaining roof groan in protest and went down to his knees, peering in.
40 spoon Noun UNKNOWN 4039 In her hand she clutched her heavy wooden spoon.
41 saple Gerund UNKNOWN 4040 CHAPTER 7 The Blood of Mather "The blood of Mather!" scoffed Tuntun, an elf maiden so slight of build that she could easily hide behind a third-year sapling.
42 defiant Adjective UNKNOWN 4041 Soothing sounds, and that made defiant Elbryan panic even more.
43 fondness Noun UNKNOWN 4042 Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans.
44 bumbling Noun UNKNOWN 4043 Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans.
45 spade Noun UNKNOWN 4044 He put his sword in his belt, found a spade; and began to dig.
46 scope Noun UNKNOWN 4045 He found Thomas Ault and several other men next, and only then did the already weary youngster realize the scope of his task.
47 suffice Verb UNKNOWN 4046 That would have to suffice.
48 underneath Adjective UNKNOWN 4047 He found a tall pine with low-hanging branches and slipped underneath them into the natural tent.
49 stamina Noun UNKNOWN 4048 Even Tuntun was impressed by his stamina.
50 sapling Noun UNKNOWN 4049 He had to leap away instead, far out to the side, crashing through twigs and saplings, for the boulder superheated, turned red, and then melted away right below him!
51 career Noun UNKNOWN 4050 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.
52 adept Adjective UNKNOWN 4051 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.
53 limited Verb UNKNOWN 4052 Only the keenest of eyes could have picked him out within that blocking canopy, but of course, his field of vision likewise was severely limited.
54 fairy Noun UNKNOWN 4053 The teasing fairy song, remaining at the very edge of his consciousness, led Elbryan on for many minutes.
55 circular Adjective UNKNOWN 4054 It was fairly circular, perhaps eight feet in diameter.
56 dancer Noun UNKNOWN 4055 But this - " She held her hand out to the revelry, to the half-naked dancer who, as if on cue, tumbled from the table.
57 distaste Noun UNKNOWN 4056 Avelyn scrunched his face with distaste and disbelief.
58 coarse Adjective UNKNOWN 4057 She knew, as did all the gathering, that there was no possible way she could have stumbled into such a coarse trap had not a bit of magic been worked.
59 candidate Noun UNKNOWN 4058 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.
60 seamanship Noun UNKNOWN 4059 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.
61 latitude Noun UNKNOWN 4060 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.
62 variety Noun UNKNOWN 4061 They learned how to tie ropes in a variety of ways, knots necessary for the many uses aboard a sailing vessel.
63 knot Noun UNKNOWN 4062 They learned how to tie ropes in a variety of ways, knots necessary for the many uses aboard a sailing vessel.
64 reputed Adjective UNKNOWN 4063 He knew its reputed properties, of course, but he had never attempted to use them.
65 security Noun UNKNOWN 4064 There was security in that, Avelyn came to realize, but also responsibility.
66 core Noun UNKNOWN 4065 To see such human frailty in the masters of St.-Mere-Abelle touched the very core of Avelyn's faith.
67 retrieval Noun UNKNOWN 4066 All that should have mattered was the retrieval of the stones.
68 positions Noun UNKNOWN 4067 Toward his fellow Preparers, young men he would compete against for the coveted two positions of those who would actually step onto the island of Pimaninicuit, Avelyn felt no rivalry.
69 brightness Noun UNKNOWN 4068 During the long hours put in at night, not one of the other three came close to him; they were still mired in charting the stars when Avelyn had moved on to the specific humours that caused the "magical" reaction, having already passed through the recognition of the stones by touch as well as sight and the recognition of their potential intensity by their brightness, shape, and hue.
70 daytime Noun UNKNOWN 4069 The daytime training was not as easy or as inspiring for Avelyn.
71 revelation Plural UNKNOWN 4070 He found the many prayer rituals boring, even trite, in light of the revelations he was finding every night.
72 sunrise Noun UNKNOWN 4071 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.
73 noon Noun UNKNOWN 4072 The boy believed the sun to be in the west, halfway from noon to sunset.
74 frigid Adjective UNKNOWN 4073 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.
75 barehand PastTense UNKNOWN 4074 For the first year, they would study barehanded techniques, punching and grappling.
76 pounding Noun UNKNOWN 4075 And through it all, barehanded and with weapons, they would square off against each other, pounding on each other relentlessly.
77 mutual Adjective UNKNOWN 4076 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.
78 superiority Noun UNKNOWN 4077 He stood with an air of superiority, posture perfect, hand on gilded rapier.
79 serpent Noun UNKNOWN 4078 In most of the maneuvers, the monks were supposed to pull their punches, but Quintall often blasted the breath from Avelyn; there was no striking above the shoulders allowed, but more than once, Quintall knifed a "serpent hand" across Avelyn's throat, dropping him to his knees, gasping for breath.
80 eliminate Verb UNKNOWN 4079 The slips had become too common; Avelyn honestly believed Quintall meant to eliminate the competition.
81 goose Noun UNKNOWN 4080 Quintall's grin was certainly as far from Godlike as anything Avelyn had ever seen, and the fact that their training with weapons, where wounds could easily become more severe, was not far away, brought goose bumps to the scholarly young man.
82 cocky Adjective UNKNOWN 4081 Who might this leader of the herd be to inspire such uncharacteristic respect from cocky Bradwarden?
83 text Noun UNKNOWN 4082 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.
84 vague Adjective UNKNOWN 4083 Master Jojonah's instructions were vague at best, but Avelyn came to understand them in his heart.
85 twinkle Noun UNKNOWN 4084 Soon the sky was clear above him, the first stars twinkling into view.
86 pet Noun UNKNOWN 4085 "The war goes well, my pet," the dactyl went on.
87 types Noun UNKNOWN 4086 There were nearly fifty different types at the abbey, each with its own particular properties, and each individual stone with its own particular intensity.
88 factor Noun UNKNOWN 4087 Was their mission the overriding factor here, for if they attacked and were beaten back, killed, or captured, then who would go on to the smoking mountain to stand against the demon dactyl?
89 ascension Noun UNKNOWN 4088 There were in the abbey no more than four other monks, three of them masters and one Father Abbot Markwart himself, who could so distinguish magical intensity, and that fact had been the determining factor in Dalebert Markwart's ascension to the highest rank, for his chief rival could not determine magical intensity in individual stones.
90 dreary Adjective UNKNOWN 4089 He set out from the abbey one dark and dreary morning, riding an ash-gray mare, not swift of hoof but long in heart.
91 staircase Noun UNKNOWN 4090 "Finished already?" Grady called as he descended the wide, sweeping staircase of House Battlebrow, the most renowned brothel in all of Palmaris.
92 eavesdrop Noun UNKNOWN 4091 Avelyn tried hard not to eavesdrop, but he did catch snatches of the conversation, mostly Siherton complaining vigorously that this was against strict procedure.
93 unintentionally Adverb UNKNOWN 4092 "Not a test, but a show," Jojonah argued, * unintentionally lifting his voice.
94 upraise Verb UNKNOWN 4093 Finally, Father Abbot Markwart halted the conversation with an upraised hand.
95 awestruck Verb UNKNOWN 4094 From the trees behind Elbryan, Pony and Avelyn watched awestruck.
96 register Verb UNKNOWN 4095 "You have used the stones?" It took a long moment for Avelyn even to register the question.
97 chrysotile Noun UNKNOWN 4096 He held out his left hand and opened it to show Avelyn three stones: malachite, ringed with various shades of green; shining, polished amber; and a silvery piece of chrysotile, the largest of the three resembling a sheet of straight bars, long and narrow lying side by side.
98 bars Noun UNKNOWN 4097 The others followed without delay, and their hopes mounted when they came to a heavy grate, bars set floor to ceiling, blocking the passage.
99 disparate Adjective UNKNOWN 4098 Avelyn considered the sight from two widely disparate viewpoints.
100 nonetheless Adjective UNKNOWN 4099 Nonetheless, Jojonah began to protest again, but Markwart cut him short.
101 gleam Noun UNKNOWN 4100 Father Abbot Markwart appeared wickedly intense, the gleam in his eyes seeming almost maniacal, and certainly frightening.