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"lemma","pos","cefr_level","coverage_rank","context_sentence","context_sentence_zh","definition_zh"
"accounts","Noun","UNKNOWN","4201","Physically, by all accounts, he was the image of his father in Graevis' younger days, but by Cat's estimation, Grady could not have been more different than Graevis in temperament.","",""
"rightful","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4202","She envisioned herself as a light source, a blazing sun, rightful owner of this mortal coil, and she fought back.","",""
"inheritance","Noun","UNKNOWN","4203","Stiff even, and as the young woman had grown wiser to the ways of the world, she came to understand that Grady saw her as a threat to what he considered his rightful inheritance.","",""
"contrast","Noun","UNKNOWN","4204","His proper speech rang in sharp contrast to the street dialect of his parents.","",""
"expensive","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4205","He fancied himself an important man, and frequented the more expensive establishments near the duke's castle, and had even been in the castle on many occasions.","",""
"apron","Noun","UNKNOWN","4206","She shook her head, tossed her apron to the back of a nearby chair, gathered up her cloak, and headed out into the Palmaris night.","",""
"brine","Noun","UNKNOWN","4207","Even now, after nearly four years in Palmaris, when she knew every street, where to go, where to avoid, and when the dark image of the great Masur Delaval and the smell of brine and the wind filled with crisp wetness had become very familiar to her, she could not consider the place her home.","",""
"affectionately","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4208","It had been given to her affectionately, she knew, and with all sympathy for her pitiful predicament, and so she had not argued.","",""
"soot","Noun","UNKNOWN","4209","She remembered wandering into a village, dirty and wounded, covered in soot and blood.","",""
"orphan","Noun","UNKNOWN","4210","Any reservations that the nobleman's family had held toward the peasant orphan girl had been washed away when they met Jill, truly beautiful both inside and out.","",""
"neighboring","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4211","His solace came in duty, in his vow that this Dundalis and the two neighboring villages would not share the fate that had befallen his own village.","",""
"phenomenon","Noun","UNKNOWN","4212","""The Halo,"" Cat-the-Stray muttered, and she realized that she had not seen the phenomenon since she had come to Palmaris.","",""
"metallic","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4213","She considered going back into the Way and inquiring about this Halo right then, but her concentration was broken by a sharp, metallic sound.","",""
"lovely","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4214","""Ah, me lovely,"" said the drunk from the bar.","",""
"namesake","Noun","UNKNOWN","4215","Quick as her namesake, the young woman leaped across and put her knee heavily into the drunk's chest, knocking him flat to the roof.","",""
"cheap","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4216","Brother Justice found their stories, sputtered for the price of a few cheap ales, quite interesting.","",""
"nibble","Verb","UNKNOWN","4217","But the young monk could not pull his mind far from the horrors he had witnessed, the encroaching evil that nibbled at the very heart of all that young Avelyn Desbris had held dear.","",""
"stun","Verb","UNKNOWN","4218","Just as stunning to the hardy folk was the manner in which the goblin lines had parted.","",""
"foreseen","Noun","UNKNOWN","4219","Even worse for the powries, though neither Adjonas nor any other aboard the Windrunner could have foreseen it, the drifting barrelboat appeared remarkably like a wounded whale to the crazed sharks.","",""
"squirming","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4220","He pushed down hard to secure the squirming youngster and swung about, Hawkwing in his free hand, ready to fend off an attack.","",""
"ashamed","PastTense","UNKNOWN","4221","And she was not ashamed, not embarrassed, and no black wings of horrors past swept up about her.","",""
"bosom","Noun","UNKNOWN","4222","She took a deep breath and moved to the gutter, then down, meeting the eyes of no one, falling into the bosom of Pettibwa as soon as she spotted the woman, and whispering for Pettibwa to please take her to her room.","",""
"thrive","Verb","UNKNOWN","4223","Indeed she had thrived; initially, at least, in the military.","",""
"functions","Noun","UNKNOWN","4224","They studied with their respective classmates throughout the day, learning their religious duties and expectations, the day-to-day functions of the abbey, and the fighting techniques.","",""
"ingrained","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4225","It seemed that as every ceremony became ingrained within him, it lost a bit of its mystery, and thus, its holiness.","",""
"ideal","Noun","UNKNOWN","4226","For in the Ring Stones, the young man found his ideals satisfied.","",""
"ironic","Verb","UNKNOWN","4227","The thought was more than a little unsettling to gentle Avelyn Desbris, and he thought it ironic that Quintall's anger was no more than proof that he, and not the stocky, ferocious man, was the better choice for Pimaninicuit.","",""
"reservation","Plural","UNKNOWN","4228","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.","",""
"lobby","Verb","UNKNOWN","4229","Siherton maintained his tight bond with Quintall and lobbied for the younger man to be included - as Thagraine's replacement and not Avelyn's.","",""
"mediator","Noun","UNKNOWN","4230","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.","",""
"texts","Noun","UNKNOWN","4231","From the texts he had studied, he conjured images of lush gardens and'
exotic flowers, pictured himself standing in a garden with multicolored stones raining down around him, divine music playing in the air.","",""
"playing","Noun","UNKNOWN","4232","The centaur stopped his playing when he spotted his friend, his white smile growing wide within his bushy black beard.","",""
"watery","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4233","But for all the harsh reality, for all the possibilities that he would not survive, Avelyn watched the watery horizon for hint of those square sails most intently of all.","",""
"pinnacle","Noun","UNKNOWN","4234","To his thinking, this was the pinnacle of his existence, the greatest joy that a monk of St.-Mere-Abelle might know, the closest, before death, that he could ever get to his God.","",""
"office","Noun","UNKNOWN","4235","The other three chosen were already in the spacious office when Avelyn and Jojonah arrived.","",""
"mustache","Noun","UNKNOWN","4236","He had a garish scar running from ear to chin that seemed to Avelyn somehow gallant, and, unlike his scruffy companion, he was clean shaven except for a neatly trimmed mustache, rolling out from the sides of his mouth and curling up.","",""
"acutely","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4237","That garment held Avelyn's attention acutely, for he sensed that at least one of those jewels, a small ruby, was more than ornamental.","",""
"ornamental","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4238","That garment held Avelyn's attention acutely, for he sensed that at least one of those jewels, a small ruby, was more than ornamental.","",""
"proximity","Noun","UNKNOWN","4239","- and yet, fighting in such proximity had him on the defensive for her sake.","",""
"wishes","Noun","UNKNOWN","4240","Perhaps Pireth Vanguard would be better, she sometimes dared to hope; but inevitably, her wishes fell back on the dark reality that was life in Honce-the-Bear in God's Year 824.","",""
"yourselves","Noun","UNKNOWN","4241","Make your peace with God and prepare yourselves for the task before you,""
They left the office then, unescorted, and Quintall began openly complaining even as the door shut behind them.","",""
"pecking","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4242","The pecking order for the voyage had indeed been determined in just that manner.","",""
"grandest","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4243","The morning ceremony was the grandest event that Avelyn had seen in his four and a half years at St.-Mere-Abelle.","",""
"bell","Noun","UNKNOWN","4244","The bells of the abbey pealed repeatedly, drawing curious onlookers from the nearby village of St.-Mere-Abelle.","",""
"peal","Verb","UNKNOWN","4245","The bells of the abbey pealed repeatedly, drawing curious onlookers from the nearby village of St.-Mere-Abelle.","",""
"noisily","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4246","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.","",""
"crusty","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4247","CHAPTER 13 Running Fast Down a Long, Long Road
Elbryan froze as he heard the crusty snow crunch under his feet.","",""
"jealous","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4248","Avelyn watched that stare, and the return look Quintall offered to the master, and he understood that, while Quintall hated him and was jealous of him, the man would indeed protect him at all costs on the journey to and from the island.","",""
"joyous","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4249","The ceremony went off perfectly solemn yet joyous, ladies crying, men standing tall and handsome.","",""
"extent","Noun","B2","4250","The young man paused then to consider the extent of his progress.","",""
"misstep","Noun","UNKNOWN","4251","Only the previous autumn, he would not even have noticed his last slight misstep.","",""
"clumsy","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4252","Elbryan had learned to walk nearly silently - though he still thought himself clumsy when measured against the graceful elves!","",""
"observe","Verb","UNKNOWN","4253","He had learned to observe the world through the senses of each animal, understood now each creature's fears and needs.","",""
"moot","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4254","The point was moot, anyway, for Elbryan never got close to touching the elusive deer.","",""
"exclaim","Verb","UNKNOWN","4255","""Elu touise!""
Juraviel exclaimed and patted the young man on the back.","",""
"despondently","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4256","""A wound that will not heal,"" the Lady said despondently.","",""
"fumbling","Noun","UNKNOWN","4257","Even the pursuit seemed left behind, the fumbling giants not keeping pace.","",""
"gains","Noun","UNKNOWN","4258","He tried to keep a perspective on his gains.","",""
"session","Plural","UNKNOWN","4259","Not that Juraviel and the others weren't strong; it constantly amazed Elbryan how much power an elf packed into its tiny frame, power he felt all too often in the sting of a practice sword's strike during his sparring sessions!","",""
"bind","Verb","UNKNOWN","4260","Short of that, there was the very real possibility that Abbot Dobrinion would bind Jill into indenture to Connor, perhaps for the remainder of her life.","",""
"dice","Noun","UNKNOWN","4261","But perhaps he'd have time for a few drinks and a dice game before.","",""
"lodging","Noun","UNKNOWN","4262","Elbryan moved grudgingly to his lodging, a low, wide house on the bottom boughs of a thick-limbed elm.","",""
"sneakily","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4263","Elbryan smiled sneakily and went into a crouch.","",""
"shave","Verb","UNKNOWN","4264","Even his head was bare, for his superiors had shaved it.","",""
"punishing","Verb","UNKNOWN","4265","He could never catch Tuntun off her guard; she relished the sparring matches, acting as if they were her personal forum for punishing the young man.","",""
"encounters","Noun","UNKNOWN","4266","After his first few encounters with the surly elf, Elbryan had wondered what it was that so prompted her desire to punish.","",""
"calmer","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4267","His opponent this night was Tallareyish Issinshine, an older and calmer member of the elvish band.","",""
"feint","Noun","UNKNOWN","4268","He started with a cunning feint, boring in, mock spear leading, as if he meant to overrun the diminutive elf, and then pulling to an abrupt stop and swishing his weapon hard to the side.","",""
"anticipate","Verb","UNKNOWN","4269","He had to anticipate, and so he did, flipping his spear over one hand counterclockwise and then back again, then again clockwise, then back the other way.","",""
"counterclockwise","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4270","He had to anticipate, and so he did, flipping his spear over one hand counterclockwise and then back again, then again clockwise, then back the other way.","",""
"clicking","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4271","Elbryan uttered a soft clicking sound, and Symphony responded by lifting his ears and nickering.","",""
"twirling","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4272","He hardly saw the elf's attacks, but he took comfort in the clicking sounds as the twirling pole picked off each one.","",""
"yelling","Noun","UNKNOWN","4273","The elf went into a headlong roll, right between the young man's widespread legs, came up to his feet behind the yelling and turning Elbryan, and reversed his momentum, stabbing both his poles back.","",""
"kidney","Noun","UNKNOWN","4274","He flinched as he straightened and grabbed at his kidney.","",""
"accusingly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4275","""I heard you,"" Elbryan said accusingly.","",""
"beating","Noun","UNKNOWN","4276","This man was tough, admirably so, and Jojonah feared he would die from the beatings before he would relinquish his identity.","",""
"scared","Verb","UNKNOWN","4277","The notion of going out from the enchanted valley, perhaps of walking with his own kind again, scared him.","",""
"remarks","Noun","UNKNOWN","4278","To his credit, the gentleman did not approach her directly, nor did he leer at her or make any remarks whatsoever that made the young woman feel uncomfortable.","",""
"gaily","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4279","The man left early, tipping his floppy beret to Cat as he exited, his light brown eyes sparkling gaily, and the young woman was both relieved and upset that this second meeting had ended so abruptly.","",""
"memories","Verb","UNKNOWN","4280","Only this time, they were just memories and not threatening black demons.","",""
"conniving","Noun","UNKNOWN","4281","""Will ye wait the man at the table near to the window for me?"" the conniving woman asked often, always with some excuse close at hand.","",""
"wad","Verb","UNKNOWN","4282","Cat-the-Stray could hardly refuse, but she went to the man with a cold demeanor indeed, asking what he fancied and pointedly clarifying that she wad referring to food or drink only.","",""
"frustrated","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4283","He was in the tavern the next week, as well, and this time, Pettibwa, seeming a bit frustrated with the young woman, was more straightforward about insisting that the man was Cat's to serve.","",""
"acquaint","Verb","UNKNOWN","4284","""I believe that you are acquainted with my ..."" Grady fished for the right word, and Cat; blushing fiercely, wanted to smack him on the back of the head.","",""
"proportion","Singular","UNKNOWN","4285","Everything about her seemed to fit perfectly - her nose, eyes, and mouth in perfect proportion, her legs and arms long and slender but certainly not skinny.","",""
"gait","Noun","UNKNOWN","4286","Her gait enhanced that perception as well, for she walked with ease and fluidity, always balanced.","",""
"orphaned","Verb","UNKNOWN","4287","Perhaps, but Juraviel knew, too, that such events might accompany a larger and darker phenomenon, that earthquakes that could tear the earth as here, that goblin raids upon villages, like the one that had orphaned Elbryan not five years before, might signal something evil indeed.","",""
"impressed","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4288","The centaur, for the very first time, seemed honestly impressed.","",""
"introduction","Singular","UNKNOWN","4289","Bradwarden the ...""
He stopped as Elbryan came out from behind the tree, the ranger rightly sensing that this introduction could go on for some time.","",""
"reflex","Noun","UNKNOWN","4290","She was no novice to battle, this one, with finely honed reflexes.","",""
"sip","PastTense","UNKNOWN","4291","""No need.""
She smiled at him again, pushed the wineglass, from which she had not sipped, back in front of him, and took her leave.","",""
"sarcastic","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4292","""Am I to swoon, then?"" Cat asked, growing bolder and more sarcastic.","",""
"spirited","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4293","""You are the spirited one,"" Connor remarked.","",""
"kitchen","Noun","UNKNOWN","4294","She worked in the kitchen at St.-Mere-Abelle, a beautiful young lady with long black hair and dark, mysterious eyes.","",""
"toothy","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4295","The older woman clapped her pudgy hands before her, her toothy smile nearly taking in her ears.","",""
"represent","Verb","UNKNOWN","4296","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.","",""
"advances","Noun","UNKNOWN","4297","And yet she couldn't ignore the advances of handsome Connor Bildeborough, not at the price of breaking Pettibwa's heart.","",""
"vaguely","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4298","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","UNKNOWN","4299","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.","",""
"endure","Verb","UNKNOWN","4300","But the old sea dog couldn't fathom the level of physical training these four men had endured.","",""
1 lemma pos cefr_level coverage_rank context_sentence context_sentence_zh definition_zh
2 accounts Noun UNKNOWN 4201 Physically, by all accounts, he was the image of his father in Graevis' younger days, but by Cat's estimation, Grady could not have been more different than Graevis in temperament.
3 rightful Adjective UNKNOWN 4202 She envisioned herself as a light source, a blazing sun, rightful owner of this mortal coil, and she fought back.
4 inheritance Noun UNKNOWN 4203 Stiff even, and as the young woman had grown wiser to the ways of the world, she came to understand that Grady saw her as a threat to what he considered his rightful inheritance.
5 contrast Noun UNKNOWN 4204 His proper speech rang in sharp contrast to the street dialect of his parents.
6 expensive Adjective UNKNOWN 4205 He fancied himself an important man, and frequented the more expensive establishments near the duke's castle, and had even been in the castle on many occasions.
7 apron Noun UNKNOWN 4206 She shook her head, tossed her apron to the back of a nearby chair, gathered up her cloak, and headed out into the Palmaris night.
8 brine Noun UNKNOWN 4207 Even now, after nearly four years in Palmaris, when she knew every street, where to go, where to avoid, and when the dark image of the great Masur Delaval and the smell of brine and the wind filled with crisp wetness had become very familiar to her, she could not consider the place her home.
9 affectionately Adverb UNKNOWN 4208 It had been given to her affectionately, she knew, and with all sympathy for her pitiful predicament, and so she had not argued.
10 soot Noun UNKNOWN 4209 She remembered wandering into a village, dirty and wounded, covered in soot and blood.
11 orphan Noun UNKNOWN 4210 Any reservations that the nobleman's family had held toward the peasant orphan girl had been washed away when they met Jill, truly beautiful both inside and out.
12 neighboring Adjective UNKNOWN 4211 His solace came in duty, in his vow that this Dundalis and the two neighboring villages would not share the fate that had befallen his own village.
13 phenomenon Noun UNKNOWN 4212 "The Halo," Cat-the-Stray muttered, and she realized that she had not seen the phenomenon since she had come to Palmaris.
14 metallic Adjective UNKNOWN 4213 She considered going back into the Way and inquiring about this Halo right then, but her concentration was broken by a sharp, metallic sound.
15 lovely Adjective UNKNOWN 4214 "Ah, me lovely," said the drunk from the bar.
16 namesake Noun UNKNOWN 4215 Quick as her namesake, the young woman leaped across and put her knee heavily into the drunk's chest, knocking him flat to the roof.
17 cheap Adjective UNKNOWN 4216 Brother Justice found their stories, sputtered for the price of a few cheap ales, quite interesting.
18 nibble Verb UNKNOWN 4217 But the young monk could not pull his mind far from the horrors he had witnessed, the encroaching evil that nibbled at the very heart of all that young Avelyn Desbris had held dear.
19 stun Verb UNKNOWN 4218 Just as stunning to the hardy folk was the manner in which the goblin lines had parted.
20 foreseen Noun UNKNOWN 4219 Even worse for the powries, though neither Adjonas nor any other aboard the Windrunner could have foreseen it, the drifting barrelboat appeared remarkably like a wounded whale to the crazed sharks.
21 squirming Adjective UNKNOWN 4220 He pushed down hard to secure the squirming youngster and swung about, Hawkwing in his free hand, ready to fend off an attack.
22 ashamed PastTense UNKNOWN 4221 And she was not ashamed, not embarrassed, and no black wings of horrors past swept up about her.
23 bosom Noun UNKNOWN 4222 She took a deep breath and moved to the gutter, then down, meeting the eyes of no one, falling into the bosom of Pettibwa as soon as she spotted the woman, and whispering for Pettibwa to please take her to her room.
24 thrive Verb UNKNOWN 4223 Indeed she had thrived; initially, at least, in the military.
25 functions Noun UNKNOWN 4224 They studied with their respective classmates throughout the day, learning their religious duties and expectations, the day-to-day functions of the abbey, and the fighting techniques.
26 ingrained Adjective UNKNOWN 4225 It seemed that as every ceremony became ingrained within him, it lost a bit of its mystery, and thus, its holiness.
27 ideal Noun UNKNOWN 4226 For in the Ring Stones, the young man found his ideals satisfied.
28 ironic Verb UNKNOWN 4227 The thought was more than a little unsettling to gentle Avelyn Desbris, and he thought it ironic that Quintall's anger was no more than proof that he, and not the stocky, ferocious man, was the better choice for Pimaninicuit.
29 reservation Plural UNKNOWN 4228 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.
30 lobby Verb UNKNOWN 4229 Siherton maintained his tight bond with Quintall and lobbied for the younger man to be included - as Thagraine's replacement and not Avelyn's.
31 mediator Noun UNKNOWN 4230 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.
32 texts Noun UNKNOWN 4231 From the texts he had studied, he conjured images of lush gardens and' exotic flowers, pictured himself standing in a garden with multicolored stones raining down around him, divine music playing in the air.
33 playing Noun UNKNOWN 4232 The centaur stopped his playing when he spotted his friend, his white smile growing wide within his bushy black beard.
34 watery Adjective UNKNOWN 4233 But for all the harsh reality, for all the possibilities that he would not survive, Avelyn watched the watery horizon for hint of those square sails most intently of all.
35 pinnacle Noun UNKNOWN 4234 To his thinking, this was the pinnacle of his existence, the greatest joy that a monk of St.-Mere-Abelle might know, the closest, before death, that he could ever get to his God.
36 office Noun UNKNOWN 4235 The other three chosen were already in the spacious office when Avelyn and Jojonah arrived.
37 mustache Noun UNKNOWN 4236 He had a garish scar running from ear to chin that seemed to Avelyn somehow gallant, and, unlike his scruffy companion, he was clean shaven except for a neatly trimmed mustache, rolling out from the sides of his mouth and curling up.
38 acutely Adverb UNKNOWN 4237 That garment held Avelyn's attention acutely, for he sensed that at least one of those jewels, a small ruby, was more than ornamental.
39 ornamental Adjective UNKNOWN 4238 That garment held Avelyn's attention acutely, for he sensed that at least one of those jewels, a small ruby, was more than ornamental.
40 proximity Noun UNKNOWN 4239 - and yet, fighting in such proximity had him on the defensive for her sake.
41 wishes Noun UNKNOWN 4240 Perhaps Pireth Vanguard would be better, she sometimes dared to hope; but inevitably, her wishes fell back on the dark reality that was life in Honce-the-Bear in God's Year 824.
42 yourselves Noun UNKNOWN 4241 Make your peace with God and prepare yourselves for the task before you," They left the office then, unescorted, and Quintall began openly complaining even as the door shut behind them.
43 pecking Adjective UNKNOWN 4242 The pecking order for the voyage had indeed been determined in just that manner.
44 grandest Adjective UNKNOWN 4243 The morning ceremony was the grandest event that Avelyn had seen in his four and a half years at St.-Mere-Abelle.
45 bell Noun UNKNOWN 4244 The bells of the abbey pealed repeatedly, drawing curious onlookers from the nearby village of St.-Mere-Abelle.
46 peal Verb UNKNOWN 4245 The bells of the abbey pealed repeatedly, drawing curious onlookers from the nearby village of St.-Mere-Abelle.
47 noisily Adverb UNKNOWN 4246 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.
48 crusty Adjective UNKNOWN 4247 CHAPTER 13 Running Fast Down a Long, Long Road Elbryan froze as he heard the crusty snow crunch under his feet.
49 jealous Adjective UNKNOWN 4248 Avelyn watched that stare, and the return look Quintall offered to the master, and he understood that, while Quintall hated him and was jealous of him, the man would indeed protect him at all costs on the journey to and from the island.
50 joyous Adjective UNKNOWN 4249 The ceremony went off perfectly solemn yet joyous, ladies crying, men standing tall and handsome.
51 extent Noun B2 4250 The young man paused then to consider the extent of his progress.
52 misstep Noun UNKNOWN 4251 Only the previous autumn, he would not even have noticed his last slight misstep.
53 clumsy Adjective UNKNOWN 4252 Elbryan had learned to walk nearly silently - though he still thought himself clumsy when measured against the graceful elves!
54 observe Verb UNKNOWN 4253 He had learned to observe the world through the senses of each animal, understood now each creature's fears and needs.
55 moot Adjective UNKNOWN 4254 The point was moot, anyway, for Elbryan never got close to touching the elusive deer.
56 exclaim Verb UNKNOWN 4255 "Elu touise!" Juraviel exclaimed and patted the young man on the back.
57 despondently Adverb UNKNOWN 4256 "A wound that will not heal," the Lady said despondently.
58 fumbling Noun UNKNOWN 4257 Even the pursuit seemed left behind, the fumbling giants not keeping pace.
59 gains Noun UNKNOWN 4258 He tried to keep a perspective on his gains.
60 session Plural UNKNOWN 4259 Not that Juraviel and the others weren't strong; it constantly amazed Elbryan how much power an elf packed into its tiny frame, power he felt all too often in the sting of a practice sword's strike during his sparring sessions!
61 bind Verb UNKNOWN 4260 Short of that, there was the very real possibility that Abbot Dobrinion would bind Jill into indenture to Connor, perhaps for the remainder of her life.
62 dice Noun UNKNOWN 4261 But perhaps he'd have time for a few drinks and a dice game before.
63 lodging Noun UNKNOWN 4262 Elbryan moved grudgingly to his lodging, a low, wide house on the bottom boughs of a thick-limbed elm.
64 sneakily Adverb UNKNOWN 4263 Elbryan smiled sneakily and went into a crouch.
65 shave Verb UNKNOWN 4264 Even his head was bare, for his superiors had shaved it.
66 punishing Verb UNKNOWN 4265 He could never catch Tuntun off her guard; she relished the sparring matches, acting as if they were her personal forum for punishing the young man.
67 encounters Noun UNKNOWN 4266 After his first few encounters with the surly elf, Elbryan had wondered what it was that so prompted her desire to punish.
68 calmer Adjective UNKNOWN 4267 His opponent this night was Tallareyish Issinshine, an older and calmer member of the elvish band.
69 feint Noun UNKNOWN 4268 He started with a cunning feint, boring in, mock spear leading, as if he meant to overrun the diminutive elf, and then pulling to an abrupt stop and swishing his weapon hard to the side.
70 anticipate Verb UNKNOWN 4269 He had to anticipate, and so he did, flipping his spear over one hand counterclockwise and then back again, then again clockwise, then back the other way.
71 counterclockwise Adjective UNKNOWN 4270 He had to anticipate, and so he did, flipping his spear over one hand counterclockwise and then back again, then again clockwise, then back the other way.
72 clicking Adjective UNKNOWN 4271 Elbryan uttered a soft clicking sound, and Symphony responded by lifting his ears and nickering.
73 twirling Adjective UNKNOWN 4272 He hardly saw the elf's attacks, but he took comfort in the clicking sounds as the twirling pole picked off each one.
74 yelling Noun UNKNOWN 4273 The elf went into a headlong roll, right between the young man's widespread legs, came up to his feet behind the yelling and turning Elbryan, and reversed his momentum, stabbing both his poles back.
75 kidney Noun UNKNOWN 4274 He flinched as he straightened and grabbed at his kidney.
76 accusingly Adverb UNKNOWN 4275 "I heard you," Elbryan said accusingly.
77 beating Noun UNKNOWN 4276 This man was tough, admirably so, and Jojonah feared he would die from the beatings before he would relinquish his identity.
78 scared Verb UNKNOWN 4277 The notion of going out from the enchanted valley, perhaps of walking with his own kind again, scared him.
79 remarks Noun UNKNOWN 4278 To his credit, the gentleman did not approach her directly, nor did he leer at her or make any remarks whatsoever that made the young woman feel uncomfortable.
80 gaily Adverb UNKNOWN 4279 The man left early, tipping his floppy beret to Cat as he exited, his light brown eyes sparkling gaily, and the young woman was both relieved and upset that this second meeting had ended so abruptly.
81 memories Verb UNKNOWN 4280 Only this time, they were just memories and not threatening black demons.
82 conniving Noun UNKNOWN 4281 "Will ye wait the man at the table near to the window for me?" the conniving woman asked often, always with some excuse close at hand.
83 wad Verb UNKNOWN 4282 Cat-the-Stray could hardly refuse, but she went to the man with a cold demeanor indeed, asking what he fancied and pointedly clarifying that she wad referring to food or drink only.
84 frustrated Adjective UNKNOWN 4283 He was in the tavern the next week, as well, and this time, Pettibwa, seeming a bit frustrated with the young woman, was more straightforward about insisting that the man was Cat's to serve.
85 acquaint Verb UNKNOWN 4284 "I believe that you are acquainted with my ..." Grady fished for the right word, and Cat; blushing fiercely, wanted to smack him on the back of the head.
86 proportion Singular UNKNOWN 4285 Everything about her seemed to fit perfectly - her nose, eyes, and mouth in perfect proportion, her legs and arms long and slender but certainly not skinny.
87 gait Noun UNKNOWN 4286 Her gait enhanced that perception as well, for she walked with ease and fluidity, always balanced.
88 orphaned Verb UNKNOWN 4287 Perhaps, but Juraviel knew, too, that such events might accompany a larger and darker phenomenon, that earthquakes that could tear the earth as here, that goblin raids upon villages, like the one that had orphaned Elbryan not five years before, might signal something evil indeed.
89 impressed Adjective UNKNOWN 4288 The centaur, for the very first time, seemed honestly impressed.
90 introduction Singular UNKNOWN 4289 Bradwarden the ..." He stopped as Elbryan came out from behind the tree, the ranger rightly sensing that this introduction could go on for some time.
91 reflex Noun UNKNOWN 4290 She was no novice to battle, this one, with finely honed reflexes.
92 sip PastTense UNKNOWN 4291 "No need." She smiled at him again, pushed the wineglass, from which she had not sipped, back in front of him, and took her leave.
93 sarcastic Adjective UNKNOWN 4292 "Am I to swoon, then?" Cat asked, growing bolder and more sarcastic.
94 spirited Adjective UNKNOWN 4293 "You are the spirited one," Connor remarked.
95 kitchen Noun UNKNOWN 4294 She worked in the kitchen at St.-Mere-Abelle, a beautiful young lady with long black hair and dark, mysterious eyes.
96 toothy Adjective UNKNOWN 4295 The older woman clapped her pudgy hands before her, her toothy smile nearly taking in her ears.
97 represent Verb UNKNOWN 4296 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.
98 advances Noun UNKNOWN 4297 And yet she couldn't ignore the advances of handsome Connor Bildeborough, not at the price of breaking Pettibwa's heart.
99 vaguely Adverb UNKNOWN 4298 Strange emotions swirled in Cat as he lightly touched her arm, vaguely familiar feelings but ones she had not felt in several years.
100 happiness Noun UNKNOWN 4299 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.
101 endure Verb UNKNOWN 4300 But the old sea dog couldn't fathom the level of physical training these four men had endured.