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"lemma","pos","cefr_level","coverage_rank","context_sentence","context_sentence_zh","definition_zh"
"figuring","Noun","UNKNOWN","3701","So Elbryan stood back from it all, figuring it to be one of those dangers for the villagers to work out on their own.","",""
"guarantee","Verb","B2","3702","His reentry would be guaranteed, but his position as a Preparer - though he had no idea that he would be offered such a position or even that there was such a thing - would be lost.","",""
"syllable","Noun","UNKNOWN","3703","""Your mother has died, boy,"" he said slowly, accentuating each syllable.","",""
"sickness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3704","She lived on, in sickness, only to see me enter the Order of St.-Mere-Abelle.","",""
"peacefully","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3705","That is the vision that allowed Annalisa Desbris to pass on peacefully from this world.""
Master Jojonah nodded, seeing the calm and logical reasoning, and at once impressed with, and frightened of, the depth of this young man's faith.","",""
"offense","Noun","UNKNOWN","3706","He bowed his head as soon as he realized that he had just spoken against a master's command, an offense that could lead to exile from the abbey.","",""
"testament","Noun","UNKNOWN","3707","His stubbornness held for many minutes, a testament to the young man's strong willpower.","",""
"cushiony","Noun","UNKNOWN","3708","He considered the gold leaf highlighting the carved hardwood of the room's support beams, the rich rug from some exotic land, the cushiony chairs, the many baubles and trinkets on his vast bookshelf, every one of them worth more gold than a common laborer would make in a year.","",""
"trinket","Noun","UNKNOWN","3709","The sailors cared nothing for this all-important mission, Avelyn realized, beyond their payment of gold - and whatever other trinkets Father Abbot Markwart had included in the bargain.","",""
"richly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3710","Jojonah glanced around the room again, reminding himself that most of the other masters, even some of the tenth-year immaculates, had chambers more richly adorned.","",""
"adorn","Verb","UNKNOWN","3711","Jojonah glanced around the room again, reminding himself that most of the other masters, even some of the tenth-year immaculates, had chambers more richly adorned.","",""
"pragmatism","Noun","UNKNOWN","3712","But pragmatism, too, should be part of that pledge, so said Father Abbot Markwart, and so had declared the abbey's.","",""
"altogether","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3713","Elbryan dismissed the notion altogether; he was on the eastern edge of the Moorlands by now, not so far from human settlements.","",""
"stool","Noun","UNKNOWN","3714","He went quietly to the service, then skipped his evening meal altogether and went right to his
chamber, a five-foot-square cubicle with a single stool, which doubled as a table for Avelyn's candle, and a cot - little more than a flat board and a blanket - that folded down from one wall.","",""
"farewell","Noun","UNKNOWN","3715","Would Annalisa come to say goodbye to her youngest child, or had she already said her farewells to Avelyn in the courtyard outside of St.-Mere-Abelle?","",""
"leak","Verb","UNKNOWN","3716","He felt the first tears leaking from his eyes and tried to deny them.","",""
"deserving","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3717","The Abellican Church, the ancient scriptures, promised heaven to those deserving, and who could be more deserving than gentle and generous Annalisa Desbris?","",""
"generous","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3718","The Abellican Church, the ancient scriptures, promised heaven to those deserving, and who could be more deserving than gentle and generous Annalisa Desbris?","",""
"sniffle","Noun","UNKNOWN","3719","Still the tears came; every so often his even tone was broken by a sniffle or a sob.","",""
"compose","Verb","UNKNOWN","3720","Finally, after more than an hour, Avelyn composed himself and sat back on the cot, taking several deep breaths to fight away the last of the sobs.","",""
"splendor","Noun","UNKNOWN","3721","Avelyn tried to keep his head bowed, his eyes to the floor, as befitted his lowly station, but he couldn't help notice some of the splendors that surrounded him as he followed Master Jojonah through the winding corridors of the Abbot's Maze, the most private and revered place in all of St.-Mere-Abelle, and one that a first-year novice would certainly not expect to visit.","",""
"divert","Verb","UNKNOWN","3722","None of it diverted Avelyn's attention from the wonders of the place, though he did listen somewhat, fearing to miss any questions directed his way.","",""
"enwrap","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3723","Scenes of the Halo, the heavenly gift, enwrapping all the others, an oval because of the angle at which it was portrayed.","",""
"unfold","Verb","UNKNOWN","3724","And on the way, as Avelyn's eyes scanned, it seemed to him as if the history of the world, of the faith, unfolded to him, the images packed so that one led to another easily, with enough distinction so that each made an impact, however brief, like the flowing of time.","",""
"distinction","Singular","UNKNOWN","3725","Smealy as he had drowned the powrie, without distinction of the fact that the victim this time was not an evil dwarf but a human being.","",""
"explicit","Adjective","B2","3726","But his orders concerning Pimaninicuit had been explicit and unyielding: only those stones treated to retain their magic could be brought from the island.","",""
"blasphemous","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3727","For Avelyn, this was a most sacred mission, the most important duty of the Abellican Church, and to profane it so by indulging in a shipboard orgy, was surely blasphemous.","",""
"odor","Noun","UNKNOWN","3728","The room inside was well lit, though Avelyn saw no torches and didn't smell the usual odor of burning wood.","",""
"brilliantly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3729","It filled every corner, every crack in every stone, and reflected brilliantly off the glass covers of the many cases set about the room, and off their contents, as well, hundreds and hundreds of polished stones.","",""
"pretense","Noun","UNKNOWN","3730","It was the end, the end of hope, of any pretense of godliness.","",""
"goodly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3731","""The Ring Stones are the source of all goodly magic,"" Master Jojonah explained.","",""
"soil","Noun","UNKNOWN","3732","The upheaval was recent, that much was perfectly clear, for the soil on the torn side of the ridge was loose and deep brown, pocked here and there by a root, but with no fresh, aboveground growth.","",""
"ecstasy","Noun","UNKNOWN","3733","There was something most sacred, yet particularly unmysterious, and thus unholy, in all of this, a tingling of ecstasy combined with a slightly foul taste that Avelyn Desbris could not ignore.","",""
"arcing","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3734","Elbryan let fly a wide-arcing left hook as he spun back toward the elf.","",""
"sphere","Noun","UNKNOWN","3735","At first he thought them the borders of the known spheres, for he had heard theories of the universe as a series of overlapping, interlocking heavenly spheres, the invisible bubbles that held the layers of stars in place.","",""
"unlock","Verb","UNKNOWN","3736","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.","",""
"dense","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3737","It was heavier than Avelyn had expected, quite solid and dense.","",""
"due","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3738","""All in your due time,"" he said softly.","",""
"tile","Noun","UNKNOWN","3739","He marveled at the loose structure of the wood, at the density of the higher room's tile floor.","",""
"snake","Noun","UNKNOWN","3740","From up here: St.-Mere-Abelle appeared as a thick and stretched snake, winding its way along the top of the sea cliff.","",""
"alien","Noun","UNKNOWN","3741","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","3742","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","3743","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.","",""
"instructor","Noun","UNKNOWN","3744","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.","",""
"carrion","Noun","UNKNOWN","3745","CHAPTER 6 Carrion Birds
She came back to consciousness never expecting to see the wide sky again.","",""
"lumber","Noun","UNKNOWN","3746","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","3747","She settled back and sat very still, listening intently, not even daring to breathe.","",""
"survivor","Noun","UNKNOWN","3748","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","3749","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","3750","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","3751","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","3752","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","3753","For the boy who had just witnessed such carnage and loss, the semiconscious state was preferable.","",""
"tearing","Noun","UNKNOWN","3754","Elbryan jerked fiercely, once and then again, the tearing jolts straightening the agonized fomorian.","",""
"crushed","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3755","Goblins and powries scattered or were crushed beneath the charge, a hundred wild horses stampeding along the ravine.","",""
"vulture","Plural","UNKNOWN","3756","Surely all the world had fallen to ruin; surely all the people were dead, were being pecked and torn by vultures.","",""
"circling","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3757","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","3758","Surely all the world had fallen to ruin; surely all the people were dead, were being pecked and torn by vultures.","",""
"bedraggle","Verb","UNKNOWN","3759","Jill was too bedraggled to blush or even to care.","",""
"span","Noun","UNKNOWN","3760","In the span of a few unbelievable minutes, Elbryan's entire world had been thrown down.","",""
"unbelievable","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3761","In the span of a few unbelievable minutes, Elbryan's entire world had been thrown down.","",""
"northernmost","Noun","UNKNOWN","3762","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","3763","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","3764","On the charred threshold of one ruin, he saw a tiny corpse, a blackened ball.","",""
"carralee","Noun","UNKNOWN","3765","Carralee Ault, Pony's cousin, Elbryan realized, for she was the only baby in town.","",""
"timber","Noun","UNKNOWN","3766","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","3767","In her hand she clutched her heavy wooden spoon.","",""
"defiant","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3768","Soothing sounds, and that made defiant Elbryan panic even more.","",""
"fondness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3769","Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans.","",""
"bumbling","Noun","UNKNOWN","3770","Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans.","",""
"spade","Noun","UNKNOWN","3771","He put his sword in his belt, found a spade; and began to dig.","",""
"scope","Noun","UNKNOWN","3772","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","3773","That would have to suffice.","",""
"underneath","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3774","He found a tall pine with low-hanging branches and slipped underneath them into the natural tent.","",""
"stamen","Noun","UNKNOWN","3775","Even Tuntun was impressed by his stamina.","",""
"career","Noun","UNKNOWN","3776","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","3777","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.","",""
"nag","Verb","UNKNOWN","3778","Then another thought nagged at the young man, a notion that he had heard this song before, though he could not place it..","",""
"fairy","Noun","UNKNOWN","3779","The teasing fairy song, remaining at the very edge of his consciousness, led Elbryan on for many minutes.","",""
"circular","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3780","It was fairly circular, perhaps eight feet in diameter.","",""
"dancer","Noun","UNKNOWN","3781","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","3782","Avelyn scrunched his face with distaste and disbelief.","",""
"coarse","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3783","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","3784","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","3785","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","3786","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","3787","They learned how to tie ropes in a variety of ways, knots necessary for the many uses aboard a sailing vessel.","",""
"knot","Noun","UNKNOWN","3788","They learned how to tie ropes in a variety of ways, knots necessary for the many uses aboard a sailing vessel.","",""
"reputed","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3789","He knew its reputed properties, of course, but he had never attempted to use them.","",""
"protege","Noun","UNKNOWN","3790","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?","",""
"security","Noun","UNKNOWN","3791","There was security in that, Avelyn came to realize, but also responsibility.","",""
"core","Noun","UNKNOWN","3792","To see such human frailty in the masters of St.-Mere-Abelle touched the very core of Avelyn's faith.","",""
"retrieval","Noun","UNKNOWN","3793","All that should have mattered was the retrieval of the stones.","",""
"brightness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3794","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","3795","The daytime training was not as easy or as inspiring for Avelyn.","",""
"revelation","Plural","UNKNOWN","3796","He found the many prayer rituals boring, even trite, in light of the revelations he was finding every night.","",""
"sunrise","Noun","UNKNOWN","3797","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","3798","The boy believed the sun to be in the west, halfway from noon to sunset.","",""
"frigid","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3799","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.","",""
"barehanded","PastTense","UNKNOWN","3800","For the first year, they would study barehanded techniques, punching and grappling.","",""
"lemma","pos","cefr_level","coverage_rank","global_frequency","context_sentence","context_sentence_zh","definition_zh"
"becoming","Noun","UNKNOWN","3701","2","It was true enough; Avelyn's incredible dedication was fast becoming the talk of St.-Mere-Abelle.","",""
"overt","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3702","2","It was no secret that Siherton favored Quintall among this most important class, but the man's overt insult of Avelyn, the choice of every other master - and reportedly of Father Abbot Markwart as well - surprised him.","",""
"amiss","Noun","UNKNOWN","3703","2","Jojonah looked back at the courtyard, to Avelyn at work as always as though nothing was amiss.","",""
"macabre","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3704","2","He tried to keep a mental note of his macabre collection, tried to match it against the people of Dundalis by sorting their names house by house.","",""
"despise","Verb","UNKNOWN","3705","2","""I despise his inhumanity,"" replied Siherton.","",""
"inhumanity","Noun","UNKNOWN","3706","2","Was it, as Siherton insisted, the young man's apparent inhumanity?","",""
"smug","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3707","2","That smug look by the ranger spurred the proud Quintall into a charge.","",""
"stairwell","Noun","UNKNOWN","3708","2","Jill looked straight ahead as she made for the door to the stairwell that would get her down to her room.","",""
"figuring","Noun","UNKNOWN","3709","2","So Elbryan stood back from it all, figuring it to be one of those dangers for the villagers to work out on their own.","",""
"guarantee","Verb","B2","3710","2","His reentry would be guaranteed, but his position as a Preparer - though he had no idea that he would be offered such a position or even that there was such a thing - would be lost.","",""
"syllable","Noun","UNKNOWN","3711","2","The syllables came clear to him, though they joined into words he could not understand, distant melodic sounds he somehow recognized as part of the earth itself.","",""
"sickness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3712","2","She lived on, in sickness, only to see me enter the Order of St.-Mere-Abelle.","",""
"peacefully","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3713","2","That is the vision that allowed Annalisa Desbris to pass on peacefully from this world.""","",""
"offense","Noun","UNKNOWN","3714","2","Elbryan smiled wryly at Bradwarden before the fearsome centaur could take offense.","",""
"testament","Noun","UNKNOWN","3715","2","Was Avelyn, perhaps, a higher standard, a shadowy mirror, held up before all the monks of St.-Mere-Abelle, a testament of true faith that seemed so rare in these times, even in the holy abbey?","",""
"cushiony","Noun","UNKNOWN","3716","2","When the tittering pair finally left, Jill was sitting on the edge of the great cushiony bed, wearing only a simple silk nightgown that was too low cut, both front and back, and didn't go nearly far enough down her legs.","",""
"trinket","Noun","UNKNOWN","3717","2","The sailors cared nothing for this all-important mission, Avelyn realized, beyond their payment of gold - and whatever other trinkets Father Abbot Markwart had included in the bargain.","",""
"richly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3718","2","Jojonah glanced around the room again, reminding himself that most of the other masters, even some of the tenth-year immaculates, had chambers more richly adorned.","",""
"adorn","Verb","UNKNOWN","3719","2","Jojonah glanced around the room again, reminding himself that most of the other masters, even some of the tenth-year immaculates, had chambers more richly adorned.","",""
"pragmatism","Noun","UNKNOWN","3720","2","Tol bowed his head, his face contorting as he struggled, pragmatism against conscience.","",""
"altogether","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3721","2","Elbryan dismissed the notion altogether; he was on the eastern edge of the Moorlands by now, not so far from human settlements.","",""
"stool","Noun","UNKNOWN","3722","2","chamber, a five-foot-square cubicle with a single stool, which doubled as a table for Avelyn's candle, and a cot - little more than a flat board and a blanket - that folded down from one wall.","",""
"farewell","Noun","UNKNOWN","3723","2","Suspicious, but wise enough to keep his mouth shut, Avelyn bid farewell to Adjonas and the others - though not a man aboard the Windrunner regretted the departure of the three monks - and went ashore.","",""
"leak","Verb","UNKNOWN","3724","2","He felt the first tears leaking from his eyes and tried to deny them.","",""
"deserving","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3725","2","The Abellican Church, the ancient scriptures, promised heaven to those deserving, and who could be more deserving than gentle and generous Annalisa Desbris?","",""
"generous","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3726","2","The bartender nodded, smiling, and gave his precious Cat - he still called her that - a generous and warm hug.","",""
"sniffle","Noun","UNKNOWN","3727","2","Still the tears came; every so often his even tone was broken by a sniffle or a sob.","",""
"compose","Verb","UNKNOWN","3728","2","Finally, after more than an hour, Avelyn composed himself and sat back on the cot, taking several deep breaths to fight away the last of the sobs.","",""
"splendor","Noun","UNKNOWN","3729","2","Avelyn tried to keep his head bowed, his eyes to the floor, as befitted his lowly station, but he couldn't help notice some of the splendors that surrounded him as he followed Master Jojonah through the winding corridors of the Abbot's Maze, the most private and revered place in all of St.-Mere-Abelle, and one that a first-year novice would certainly not expect to visit.","",""
"divert","Verb","UNKNOWN","3730","2","None of it diverted Avelyn's attention from the wonders of the place, though he did listen somewhat, fearing to miss any questions directed his way.","",""
"enwrap","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3731","2","Scenes of the Halo, the heavenly gift, enwrapping all the others, an oval because of the angle at which it was portrayed.","",""
"unfold","Verb","UNKNOWN","3732","2","Elbryan's brow furrowed as he considered the words, as their implications began to unfold before him.","",""
"distinction","Singular","UNKNOWN","3733","2","Smealy as he had drowned the powrie, without distinction of the fact that the victim this time was not an evil dwarf but a human being.","",""
"explicit","Adjective","B2","3734","2","But his orders concerning Pimaninicuit had been explicit and unyielding: only those stones treated to retain their magic could be brought from the island.","",""
"blasphemous","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3735","2","For Avelyn, this was a most sacred mission, the most important duty of the Abellican Church, and to profane it so by indulging in a shipboard orgy, was surely blasphemous.","",""
"odor","Noun","UNKNOWN","3736","2","The room inside was well lit, though Avelyn saw no torches and didn't smell the usual odor of burning wood.","",""
"brilliantly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3737","2","It filled every corner, every crack in every stone, and reflected brilliantly off the glass covers of the many cases set about the room, and off their contents, as well, hundreds and hundreds of polished stones.","",""
"pretense","Noun","UNKNOWN","3738","2","It was the end, the end of hope, of any pretense of godliness.","",""
"goodly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3739","2","That last question echoed in Elbryan's mind, sounding ridiculous, for what manner of goodly force could so torture a body at rest?","",""
"soil","Noun","UNKNOWN","3740","2","The upheaval was recent, that much was perfectly clear, for the soil on the torn side of the ridge was loose and deep brown, pocked here and there by a root, but with no fresh, aboveground growth.","",""
"ecstasy","Noun","UNKNOWN","3741","2","There was something most sacred, yet particularly unmysterious, and thus unholy, in all of this, a tingling of ecstasy combined with a slightly foul taste that Avelyn Desbris could not ignore.","",""
"arcing","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3742","2","Elbryan let fly a wide-arcing left hook as he spun back toward the elf.","",""
"sphere","Noun","UNKNOWN","3743","2","At first he thought them the borders of the known spheres, for he had heard theories of the universe as a series of overlapping, interlocking heavenly spheres, the invisible bubbles that held the layers of stars in place.","",""
"unlock","Verb","UNKNOWN","3744","2","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.","",""
"dense","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3745","2","It was heavier than Avelyn had expected, quite solid and dense.","",""
"due","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3746","2","Avelyn was outnumbered five to one - and those odds were only due to the fact that three other men were fighting on his side, or at least, against the mob that was moving against the monk.","",""
"tile","Noun","UNKNOWN","3747","2","Elbryan tried hard to get past his monk friend, then, to take up the lead and close tile distance to the monster.","",""
"snake","Noun","UNKNOWN","3748","2","From up here: St.-Mere-Abelle appeared as a thick and stretched snake, winding its way along the top of the sea cliff.","",""
"alien","Noun","UNKNOWN","3749","2","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","3750","2","Pony and Chipmunk continued their wild ride, weaving about the pines, cutting sharp corners, Pony's sword flashing, Chipmurk's seemingly endless stream of daggers spinning out.","",""
"induce","Infinitive","UNKNOWN","3751","2","Elbryan recognized the black, sappy poison, a pain - inducing product of a rare black birch tree.","",""
"instructor","Noun","UNKNOWN","3752","2","For the first time since they had entered the room, there was no reverence in Master Jojonah's voice, just the dry lecturing tone of an instructor.","",""
"carrion","Noun","UNKNOWN","3753","2","She heard the cawing of the birds - carrion birds, she knew.","",""
"lumber","Noun","UNKNOWN","3754","2","The monsters' take of lumber would not have been useful; the spruce and pines were too short for catapults, too wet and sappy for wood fires, and too pliable for any construction.","",""
"listening","Noun","UNKNOWN","3755","2","She settled back and sat very still, listening intently, not even daring to breathe.","",""
"survivor","Noun","UNKNOWN","3756","2","Into the night, the four survivors went, stumbling blindly, separated, two and two, with a third of their party dead.","",""
"guttural","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3757","2","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","3758","2","The beam lifted an inch and shifted to the side, but Pony could not maintain its weight and it came down heavily, with a decidedly final thud.","",""
"sunlight","Noun","UNKNOWN","3759","2","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","3760","2","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","3761","2","For the boy who had just witnessed such carnage and loss, the semiconscious state was preferable.","",""
"tearing","Noun","UNKNOWN","3762","2","Elbryan jerked fiercely, once and then again, the tearing jolts straightening the agonized fomorian.","",""
"crushed","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3763","2","Goblins and powries scattered or were crushed beneath the charge, a hundred wild horses stampeding along the ravine.","",""
"vulture","Plural","UNKNOWN","3764","2","Surely all the world had fallen to ruin; surely all the people were dead, were being pecked and torn by vultures.","",""
"circling","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3765","2","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.","",""
"feast","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3766","2","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","3767","2","Surely all the world had fallen to ruin; surely all the people were dead, were being pecked and torn by vultures.","",""
"bedraggle","Verb","UNKNOWN","3768","2","Jill was too bedraggled to blush or even to care.","",""
"span","Noun","UNKNOWN","3769","2","In the span of a few unbelievable minutes, Elbryan's entire world had been thrown down.","",""
"unbelievable","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3770","2","In the span of a few unbelievable minutes, Elbryan's entire world had been thrown down.","",""
"northernmost","Noun","UNKNOWN","3771","2","Finally they got behind the back wall of the northernmost house in the village, just beneath the forested slope.","",""
"slack","Noun","UNKNOWN","3772","2","- 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","3773","2","On the charred threshold of one ruin, he saw a tiny corpse, a blackened ball.","",""
"carralee","Noun","UNKNOWN","3774","2","Carralee Ault, Pony's cousin, Elbryan realized, for she was the only baby in town.","",""
"timber","Noun","UNKNOWN","3775","2","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","3776","2","In her hand she clutched her heavy wooden spoon.","",""
"defiant","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3777","2","Soothing sounds, and that made defiant Elbryan panic even more.","",""
"fondness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3778","2","Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans.","",""
"bumbling","Noun","UNKNOWN","3779","2","Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans.","",""
"spade","Noun","UNKNOWN","3780","2","He put his sword in his belt, found a spade; and began to dig.","",""
"scope","Noun","UNKNOWN","3781","2","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","3782","2","That would have to suffice.","",""
"underneath","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3783","2","So he ran on, hauling bodies, peeking under rubble, kicking aside piles of dead goblins to see who might be underneath.","",""
"stamen","Noun","UNKNOWN","3784","2","Even Tuntun was impressed by his stamina.","",""
"career","Noun","UNKNOWN","3785","2","The name would have to be correct, for this bow would be the epitome of his crafting, Joycenevial determined, the highest achievement in a career so often marked by perfection.","",""
"adept","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3786","2","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.","",""
"nag","Verb","UNKNOWN","3787","2","Then another thought nagged at the young man, a notion that he had heard this song before, though he could not place it..","",""
"fairy","Noun","UNKNOWN","3788","2","The teasing fairy song, remaining at the very edge of his consciousness, led Elbryan on for many minutes.","",""
"circular","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3789","2","It was fairly circular, perhaps eight feet in diameter.","",""
"dancer","Noun","UNKNOWN","3790","2","Every attempt proved futile, for though he started straight, the young man inevitably turned with the flow of the dancers, going around in a circle until the multitude of images and the sweet melody distracted him and defeated him.","",""
"distaste","Noun","UNKNOWN","3791","2","Avelyn scrunched his face with distaste and disbelief.","",""
"coarse","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3792","2","The coarse image burned in Avelyn's mind.","",""
"candidate","Noun","UNKNOWN","3793","2","For the four chosen Preparers candidates, Avelyn and Quintall, Thagraine and Pellimar - two students from the class of God's Year 815 - life was even more difficult.","",""
"seamanship","Noun","UNKNOWN","3794","2","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","3795","2","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","3796","2","They learned how to tie ropes in a variety of ways, knots necessary for the many uses aboard a sailing vessel.","",""
"knot","Noun","UNKNOWN","3797","2","They learned how to tie ropes in a variety of ways, knots necessary for the many uses aboard a sailing vessel.","",""
"reputed","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3798","2","He knew its reputed properties, of course, but he had never attempted to use them.","",""
"protege","Noun","UNKNOWN","3799","2","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?","",""
"core","Noun","UNKNOWN","3800","2","To see such human frailty in the masters of St.-Mere-Abelle touched the very core of Avelyn's faith.","",""
1 lemma pos cefr_level coverage_rank global_frequency context_sentence context_sentence_zh definition_zh
2 figuring becoming Noun UNKNOWN 3701 2 So Elbryan stood back from it all, figuring it to be one of those dangers for the villagers to work out on their own. It was true enough; Avelyn's incredible dedication was fast becoming the talk of St.-Mere-Abelle.
3 guarantee overt Verb Adjective B2 UNKNOWN 3702 2 His reentry would be guaranteed, but his position as a Preparer - though he had no idea that he would be offered such a position or even that there was such a thing - would be lost. It was no secret that Siherton favored Quintall among this most important class, but the man's overt insult of Avelyn, the choice of every other master - and reportedly of Father Abbot Markwart as well - surprised him.
4 syllable amiss Noun UNKNOWN 3703 2 "Your mother has died, boy," he said slowly, accentuating each syllable. Jojonah looked back at the courtyard, to Avelyn at work as always as though nothing was amiss.
5 sickness macabre Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3704 2 She lived on, in sickness, only to see me enter the Order of St.-Mere-Abelle. He tried to keep a mental note of his macabre collection, tried to match it against the people of Dundalis by sorting their names house by house.
6 peacefully despise Adverb Verb UNKNOWN 3705 2 That is the vision that allowed Annalisa Desbris to pass on peacefully from this world." Master Jojonah nodded, seeing the calm and logical reasoning, and at once impressed with, and frightened of, the depth of this young man's faith. "I despise his inhumanity," replied Siherton.
7 offense inhumanity Noun UNKNOWN 3706 2 He bowed his head as soon as he realized that he had just spoken against a master's command, an offense that could lead to exile from the abbey. Was it, as Siherton insisted, the young man's apparent inhumanity?
8 testament smug Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3707 2 His stubbornness held for many minutes, a testament to the young man's strong willpower. That smug look by the ranger spurred the proud Quintall into a charge.
9 cushiony stairwell Noun UNKNOWN 3708 2 He considered the gold leaf highlighting the carved hardwood of the room's support beams, the rich rug from some exotic land, the cushiony chairs, the many baubles and trinkets on his vast bookshelf, every one of them worth more gold than a common laborer would make in a year. Jill looked straight ahead as she made for the door to the stairwell that would get her down to her room.
10 trinket figuring Noun UNKNOWN 3709 2 The sailors cared nothing for this all-important mission, Avelyn realized, beyond their payment of gold - and whatever other trinkets Father Abbot Markwart had included in the bargain. So Elbryan stood back from it all, figuring it to be one of those dangers for the villagers to work out on their own.
11 richly guarantee Adverb Verb UNKNOWN B2 3710 2 Jojonah glanced around the room again, reminding himself that most of the other masters, even some of the tenth-year immaculates, had chambers more richly adorned. His reentry would be guaranteed, but his position as a Preparer - though he had no idea that he would be offered such a position or even that there was such a thing - would be lost.
12 adorn syllable Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3711 2 Jojonah glanced around the room again, reminding himself that most of the other masters, even some of the tenth-year immaculates, had chambers more richly adorned. The syllables came clear to him, though they joined into words he could not understand, distant melodic sounds he somehow recognized as part of the earth itself.
13 pragmatism sickness Noun UNKNOWN 3712 2 But pragmatism, too, should be part of that pledge, so said Father Abbot Markwart, and so had declared the abbey's. She lived on, in sickness, only to see me enter the Order of St.-Mere-Abelle.
14 altogether peacefully Adverb UNKNOWN 3713 2 Elbryan dismissed the notion altogether; he was on the eastern edge of the Moorlands by now, not so far from human settlements. That is the vision that allowed Annalisa Desbris to pass on peacefully from this world."
15 stool offense Noun UNKNOWN 3714 2 He went quietly to the service, then skipped his evening meal altogether and went right to his chamber, a five-foot-square cubicle with a single stool, which doubled as a table for Avelyn's candle, and a cot - little more than a flat board and a blanket - that folded down from one wall. Elbryan smiled wryly at Bradwarden before the fearsome centaur could take offense.
16 farewell testament Noun UNKNOWN 3715 2 Would Annalisa come to say goodbye to her youngest child, or had she already said her farewells to Avelyn in the courtyard outside of St.-Mere-Abelle? Was Avelyn, perhaps, a higher standard, a shadowy mirror, held up before all the monks of St.-Mere-Abelle, a testament of true faith that seemed so rare in these times, even in the holy abbey?
17 leak cushiony Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3716 2 He felt the first tears leaking from his eyes and tried to deny them. When the tittering pair finally left, Jill was sitting on the edge of the great cushiony bed, wearing only a simple silk nightgown that was too low cut, both front and back, and didn't go nearly far enough down her legs.
18 deserving trinket Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3717 2 The Abellican Church, the ancient scriptures, promised heaven to those deserving, and who could be more deserving than gentle and generous Annalisa Desbris? The sailors cared nothing for this all-important mission, Avelyn realized, beyond their payment of gold - and whatever other trinkets Father Abbot Markwart had included in the bargain.
19 generous richly Adjective Adverb UNKNOWN 3718 2 The Abellican Church, the ancient scriptures, promised heaven to those deserving, and who could be more deserving than gentle and generous Annalisa Desbris? Jojonah glanced around the room again, reminding himself that most of the other masters, even some of the tenth-year immaculates, had chambers more richly adorned.
20 sniffle adorn Noun Verb UNKNOWN 3719 2 Still the tears came; every so often his even tone was broken by a sniffle or a sob. Jojonah glanced around the room again, reminding himself that most of the other masters, even some of the tenth-year immaculates, had chambers more richly adorned.
21 compose pragmatism Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3720 2 Finally, after more than an hour, Avelyn composed himself and sat back on the cot, taking several deep breaths to fight away the last of the sobs. Tol bowed his head, his face contorting as he struggled, pragmatism against conscience.
22 splendor altogether Noun Adverb UNKNOWN 3721 2 Avelyn tried to keep his head bowed, his eyes to the floor, as befitted his lowly station, but he couldn't help notice some of the splendors that surrounded him as he followed Master Jojonah through the winding corridors of the Abbot's Maze, the most private and revered place in all of St.-Mere-Abelle, and one that a first-year novice would certainly not expect to visit. Elbryan dismissed the notion altogether; he was on the eastern edge of the Moorlands by now, not so far from human settlements.
23 divert stool Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3722 2 None of it diverted Avelyn's attention from the wonders of the place, though he did listen somewhat, fearing to miss any questions directed his way. chamber, a five-foot-square cubicle with a single stool, which doubled as a table for Avelyn's candle, and a cot - little more than a flat board and a blanket - that folded down from one wall.
24 enwrap farewell Gerund Noun UNKNOWN 3723 2 Scenes of the Halo, the heavenly gift, enwrapping all the others, an oval because of the angle at which it was portrayed. Suspicious, but wise enough to keep his mouth shut, Avelyn bid farewell to Adjonas and the others - though not a man aboard the Windrunner regretted the departure of the three monks - and went ashore.
25 unfold leak Verb UNKNOWN 3724 2 And on the way, as Avelyn's eyes scanned, it seemed to him as if the history of the world, of the faith, unfolded to him, the images packed so that one led to another easily, with enough distinction so that each made an impact, however brief, like the flowing of time. He felt the first tears leaking from his eyes and tried to deny them.
26 distinction deserving Singular Adjective UNKNOWN 3725 2 Smealy as he had drowned the powrie, without distinction of the fact that the victim this time was not an evil dwarf but a human being. The Abellican Church, the ancient scriptures, promised heaven to those deserving, and who could be more deserving than gentle and generous Annalisa Desbris?
27 explicit generous Adjective B2 UNKNOWN 3726 2 But his orders concerning Pimaninicuit had been explicit and unyielding: only those stones treated to retain their magic could be brought from the island. The bartender nodded, smiling, and gave his precious Cat - he still called her that - a generous and warm hug.
28 blasphemous sniffle Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3727 2 For Avelyn, this was a most sacred mission, the most important duty of the Abellican Church, and to profane it so by indulging in a shipboard orgy, was surely blasphemous. Still the tears came; every so often his even tone was broken by a sniffle or a sob.
29 odor compose Noun Verb UNKNOWN 3728 2 The room inside was well lit, though Avelyn saw no torches and didn't smell the usual odor of burning wood. Finally, after more than an hour, Avelyn composed himself and sat back on the cot, taking several deep breaths to fight away the last of the sobs.
30 brilliantly splendor Adverb Noun UNKNOWN 3729 2 It filled every corner, every crack in every stone, and reflected brilliantly off the glass covers of the many cases set about the room, and off their contents, as well, hundreds and hundreds of polished stones. Avelyn tried to keep his head bowed, his eyes to the floor, as befitted his lowly station, but he couldn't help notice some of the splendors that surrounded him as he followed Master Jojonah through the winding corridors of the Abbot's Maze, the most private and revered place in all of St.-Mere-Abelle, and one that a first-year novice would certainly not expect to visit.
31 pretense divert Noun Verb UNKNOWN 3730 2 It was the end, the end of hope, of any pretense of godliness. None of it diverted Avelyn's attention from the wonders of the place, though he did listen somewhat, fearing to miss any questions directed his way.
32 goodly enwrap Adverb Gerund UNKNOWN 3731 2 "The Ring Stones are the source of all goodly magic," Master Jojonah explained. Scenes of the Halo, the heavenly gift, enwrapping all the others, an oval because of the angle at which it was portrayed.
33 soil unfold Noun Verb UNKNOWN 3732 2 The upheaval was recent, that much was perfectly clear, for the soil on the torn side of the ridge was loose and deep brown, pocked here and there by a root, but with no fresh, aboveground growth. Elbryan's brow furrowed as he considered the words, as their implications began to unfold before him.
34 ecstasy distinction Noun Singular UNKNOWN 3733 2 There was something most sacred, yet particularly unmysterious, and thus unholy, in all of this, a tingling of ecstasy combined with a slightly foul taste that Avelyn Desbris could not ignore. Smealy as he had drowned the powrie, without distinction of the fact that the victim this time was not an evil dwarf but a human being.
35 arcing explicit Adjective UNKNOWN B2 3734 2 Elbryan let fly a wide-arcing left hook as he spun back toward the elf. But his orders concerning Pimaninicuit had been explicit and unyielding: only those stones treated to retain their magic could be brought from the island.
36 sphere blasphemous Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3735 2 At first he thought them the borders of the known spheres, for he had heard theories of the universe as a series of overlapping, interlocking heavenly spheres, the invisible bubbles that held the layers of stars in place. For Avelyn, this was a most sacred mission, the most important duty of the Abellican Church, and to profane it so by indulging in a shipboard orgy, was surely blasphemous.
37 unlock odor Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3736 2 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. The room inside was well lit, though Avelyn saw no torches and didn't smell the usual odor of burning wood.
38 dense brilliantly Adjective Adverb UNKNOWN 3737 2 It was heavier than Avelyn had expected, quite solid and dense. It filled every corner, every crack in every stone, and reflected brilliantly off the glass covers of the many cases set about the room, and off their contents, as well, hundreds and hundreds of polished stones.
39 due pretense Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3738 2 "All in your due time," he said softly. It was the end, the end of hope, of any pretense of godliness.
40 tile goodly Noun Adverb UNKNOWN 3739 2 He marveled at the loose structure of the wood, at the density of the higher room's tile floor. That last question echoed in Elbryan's mind, sounding ridiculous, for what manner of goodly force could so torture a body at rest?
41 snake soil Noun UNKNOWN 3740 2 From up here: St.-Mere-Abelle appeared as a thick and stretched snake, winding its way along the top of the sea cliff. The upheaval was recent, that much was perfectly clear, for the soil on the torn side of the ridge was loose and deep brown, pocked here and there by a root, but with no fresh, aboveground growth.
42 alien ecstasy Noun UNKNOWN 3741 2 He talked of the humours of the body joining together with the alien humours of the stones to create the seemingly magical reaction. There was something most sacred, yet particularly unmysterious, and thus unholy, in all of this, a tingling of ecstasy combined with a slightly foul taste that Avelyn Desbris could not ignore.
43 seemingly arcing Adverb Adjective UNKNOWN 3742 2 He talked of the humours of the body joining together with the alien humours of the stones to create the seemingly magical reaction. Elbryan let fly a wide-arcing left hook as he spun back toward the elf.
44 induce sphere Infinitive Noun UNKNOWN 3743 2 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. At first he thought them the borders of the known spheres, for he had heard theories of the universe as a series of overlapping, interlocking heavenly spheres, the invisible bubbles that held the layers of stars in place.
45 instructor unlock Noun Verb UNKNOWN 3744 2 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. 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.
46 carrion dense Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3745 2 CHAPTER 6 Carrion Birds She came back to consciousness never expecting to see the wide sky again. It was heavier than Avelyn had expected, quite solid and dense.
47 lumber due Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3746 2 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. Avelyn was outnumbered five to one - and those odds were only due to the fact that three other men were fighting on his side, or at least, against the mob that was moving against the monk.
48 listening tile Noun UNKNOWN 3747 2 She settled back and sat very still, listening intently, not even daring to breathe. Elbryan tried hard to get past his monk friend, then, to take up the lead and close tile distance to the monster.
49 survivor snake Noun UNKNOWN 3748 2 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. From up here: St.-Mere-Abelle appeared as a thick and stretched snake, winding its way along the top of the sea cliff.
50 guttural alien Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3749 2 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. He talked of the humours of the body joining together with the alien humours of the stones to create the seemingly magical reaction.
51 decidedly seemingly Adverb UNKNOWN 3750 2 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. Pony and Chipmunk continued their wild ride, weaving about the pines, cutting sharp corners, Pony's sword flashing, Chipmurk's seemingly endless stream of daggers spinning out.
52 sunlight induce Noun Infinitive UNKNOWN 3751 2 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. Elbryan recognized the black, sappy poison, a pain - inducing product of a rare black birch tree.
53 thickly instructor Adverb Noun UNKNOWN 3752 2 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. For the first time since they had entered the room, there was no reverence in Master Jojonah's voice, just the dry lecturing tone of an instructor.
54 preferable carrion Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3753 2 For the boy who had just witnessed such carnage and loss, the semiconscious state was preferable. She heard the cawing of the birds - carrion birds, she knew.
55 tearing lumber Noun UNKNOWN 3754 2 Elbryan jerked fiercely, once and then again, the tearing jolts straightening the agonized fomorian. The monsters' take of lumber would not have been useful; the spruce and pines were too short for catapults, too wet and sappy for wood fires, and too pliable for any construction.
56 crushed listening Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3755 2 Goblins and powries scattered or were crushed beneath the charge, a hundred wild horses stampeding along the ravine. She settled back and sat very still, listening intently, not even daring to breathe.
57 vulture survivor Plural Noun UNKNOWN 3756 2 Surely all the world had fallen to ruin; surely all the people were dead, were being pecked and torn by vultures. Into the night, the four survivors went, stumbling blindly, separated, two and two, with a third of their party dead.
58 circling guttural Adjective UNKNOWN 3757 2 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. 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.
59 peck decidedly Gerund Adverb UNKNOWN 3758 2 Surely all the world had fallen to ruin; surely all the people were dead, were being pecked and torn by vultures. The beam lifted an inch and shifted to the side, but Pony could not maintain its weight and it came down heavily, with a decidedly final thud.
60 bedraggle sunlight Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3759 2 Jill was too bedraggled to blush or even to care. 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.
61 span thickly Noun Adverb UNKNOWN 3760 2 In the span of a few unbelievable minutes, Elbryan's entire world had been thrown down. 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.
62 unbelievable preferable Adjective UNKNOWN 3761 2 In the span of a few unbelievable minutes, Elbryan's entire world had been thrown down. For the boy who had just witnessed such carnage and loss, the semiconscious state was preferable.
63 northernmost tearing Noun UNKNOWN 3762 2 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. Elbryan jerked fiercely, once and then again, the tearing jolts straightening the agonized fomorian.
64 slack crushed Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3763 2 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. Goblins and powries scattered or were crushed beneath the charge, a hundred wild horses stampeding along the ravine.
65 threshold vulture Noun Plural UNKNOWN 3764 2 On the charred threshold of one ruin, he saw a tiny corpse, a blackened ball. Surely all the world had fallen to ruin; surely all the people were dead, were being pecked and torn by vultures.
66 carralee circling Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3765 2 Carralee Ault, Pony's cousin, Elbryan realized, for she was the only baby in town. 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.
67 timber feast Noun Gerund UNKNOWN 3766 2 He pushed aside a timber gingerly, when he heard the remaining roof groan in protest and went down to his knees, peering in. 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.
68 spoon peck Noun Gerund UNKNOWN 3767 2 In her hand she clutched her heavy wooden spoon. Surely all the world had fallen to ruin; surely all the people were dead, were being pecked and torn by vultures.
69 defiant bedraggle Adjective Verb UNKNOWN 3768 2 Soothing sounds, and that made defiant Elbryan panic even more. Jill was too bedraggled to blush or even to care.
70 fondness span Noun UNKNOWN 3769 2 Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans. In the span of a few unbelievable minutes, Elbryan's entire world had been thrown down.
71 bumbling unbelievable Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3770 2 Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans. In the span of a few unbelievable minutes, Elbryan's entire world had been thrown down.
72 spade northernmost Noun UNKNOWN 3771 2 He put his sword in his belt, found a spade; and began to dig. Finally they got behind the back wall of the northernmost house in the village, just beneath the forested slope.
73 scope slack Noun UNKNOWN 3772 2 He found Thomas Ault and several other men next, and only then did the already weary youngster realize the scope of his task. - 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.
74 suffice threshold Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3773 2 That would have to suffice. On the charred threshold of one ruin, he saw a tiny corpse, a blackened ball.
75 underneath carralee Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3774 2 He found a tall pine with low-hanging branches and slipped underneath them into the natural tent. Carralee Ault, Pony's cousin, Elbryan realized, for she was the only baby in town.
76 stamen timber Noun UNKNOWN 3775 2 Even Tuntun was impressed by his stamina. He pushed aside a timber gingerly, when he heard the remaining roof groan in protest and went down to his knees, peering in.
77 career spoon Noun UNKNOWN 3776 2 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. In her hand she clutched her heavy wooden spoon.
78 adept defiant Adjective UNKNOWN 3777 2 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. Soothing sounds, and that made defiant Elbryan panic even more.
79 nag fondness Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3778 2 Then another thought nagged at the young man, a notion that he had heard this song before, though he could not place it.. Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans.
80 fairy bumbling Noun UNKNOWN 3779 2 The teasing fairy song, remaining at the very edge of his consciousness, led Elbryan on for many minutes. Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans.
81 circular spade Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3780 2 It was fairly circular, perhaps eight feet in diameter. He put his sword in his belt, found a spade; and began to dig.
82 dancer scope Noun UNKNOWN 3781 2 But this - " She held her hand out to the revelry, to the half-naked dancer who, as if on cue, tumbled from the table. He found Thomas Ault and several other men next, and only then did the already weary youngster realize the scope of his task.
83 distaste suffice Noun Verb UNKNOWN 3782 2 Avelyn scrunched his face with distaste and disbelief. That would have to suffice.
84 coarse underneath Adjective UNKNOWN 3783 2 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. So he ran on, hauling bodies, peeking under rubble, kicking aside piles of dead goblins to see who might be underneath.
85 candidate stamen Noun UNKNOWN 3784 2 For the four chosen Preparers candidates, Avelyn and Quintall, Thagraine and Pellimar - two students from the class of God's Year 815 - life was even more difficult. Even Tuntun was impressed by his stamina.
86 seamanship career Noun UNKNOWN 3785 2 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. The name would have to be correct, for this bow would be the epitome of his crafting, Joycenevial determined, the highest achievement in a career so often marked by perfection.
87 latitude adept Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3786 2 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. 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.
88 variety nag Noun Verb UNKNOWN 3787 2 They learned how to tie ropes in a variety of ways, knots necessary for the many uses aboard a sailing vessel. Then another thought nagged at the young man, a notion that he had heard this song before, though he could not place it..
89 knot fairy Noun UNKNOWN 3788 2 They learned how to tie ropes in a variety of ways, knots necessary for the many uses aboard a sailing vessel. The teasing fairy song, remaining at the very edge of his consciousness, led Elbryan on for many minutes.
90 reputed circular Adjective UNKNOWN 3789 2 He knew its reputed properties, of course, but he had never attempted to use them. It was fairly circular, perhaps eight feet in diameter.
91 protege dancer Noun UNKNOWN 3790 2 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? Every attempt proved futile, for though he started straight, the young man inevitably turned with the flow of the dancers, going around in a circle until the multitude of images and the sweet melody distracted him and defeated him.
92 security distaste Noun UNKNOWN 3791 2 There was security in that, Avelyn came to realize, but also responsibility. Avelyn scrunched his face with distaste and disbelief.
93 core coarse Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3792 2 To see such human frailty in the masters of St.-Mere-Abelle touched the very core of Avelyn's faith. The coarse image burned in Avelyn's mind.
94 retrieval candidate Noun UNKNOWN 3793 2 All that should have mattered was the retrieval of the stones. 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.
95 brightness seamanship Noun UNKNOWN 3794 2 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. 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.
96 daytime latitude Noun UNKNOWN 3795 2 The daytime training was not as easy or as inspiring for Avelyn. 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.
97 revelation variety Plural Noun UNKNOWN 3796 2 He found the many prayer rituals boring, even trite, in light of the revelations he was finding every night. They learned how to tie ropes in a variety of ways, knots necessary for the many uses aboard a sailing vessel.
98 sunrise knot Noun UNKNOWN 3797 2 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. They learned how to tie ropes in a variety of ways, knots necessary for the many uses aboard a sailing vessel.
99 noon reputed Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3798 2 The boy believed the sun to be in the west, halfway from noon to sunset. He knew its reputed properties, of course, but he had never attempted to use them.
100 frigid protege Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3799 2 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. 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?
101 barehanded core PastTense Noun UNKNOWN 3800 2 For the first year, they would study barehanded techniques, punching and grappling. To see such human frailty in the masters of St.-Mere-Abelle touched the very core of Avelyn's faith.