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"lemma","pos","cefr_level","coverage_rank","global_frequency","context_sentence","context_sentence_zh","definition_zh"
"fearing","Noun","UNKNOWN","3101","3","And then she could look no more, fearing that she would find Thomas Ault, her father dear, among the dead.","",""
"investigate","Infinitive","B2","3102","3","Pony thought she should go closer to investigate, but she hadn't the stomach.","",""
"numbness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3103","3","She stood and stared, and a numbness came over her, stealing her emotions.","",""
"bravely","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3104","3","Elbryan could see his father had died bravely, and understanding.","",""
"forceful","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3105","3","his father's stern and forceful way, he was not surprised.","",""
"stiffen","Verb","UNKNOWN","3106","3","The elf straightened and stiffened, and leaned forward over the lunging boy's head and shoulders.","",""
"uncertain","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3107","3","Torn and uncertain, the ranger fitted an arrow to Hawkwing.","",""
"exhaustion","Singular","UNKNOWN","3108","3","Mercifully, Elbryan's grief had brought with it exhaustion, and the boy had found some sleep.","",""
"moist","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3109","3","It was warm; Elbryan felt that first, felt a soft, moist sensation gently touching all his skin.","",""
"revenge","Noun","UNKNOWN","3110","3","Despite very real fears, Elbryan wanted revenge.","",""
"transfer","Verb","B2","3111","3","News that she would soon be transferred to Pireth Vanguard far to the north, did little to change Jill's sullen mood.","",""
"lace","Noun","UNKNOWN","3112","3","Now, seeing her adorned in a white gown of satin and lace, her long, thick blond mane pinned up on one side and hanging loose on the other, she seemed made for royalty.","",""
"chief","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3113","3","Juraviel, Elbryan's chief sponsor with Lady Dasslerond, took it lightly.","",""
"resourceful","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3114","3","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.","",""
"conclusion","Noun","UNKNOWN","3115","3","And to the young man who had somehow survived a goblin raid, such a conclusion meant it could only be one thing.","",""
"rationally","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3116","3","And now he was here, the best scenario he could rationally have hoped to find.","",""
"casting","Noun","UNKNOWN","3117","3","The moon was above the easternmost boughs, casting slanted rays upon him, and he realized how foolish he had been and how vulnerable he now was.","",""
"flustered","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3118","3","He looked at the flustered young monk, then across the deck at the other three.","",""
"soothing","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3119","3","Soothing sounds, and that made defiant Elbryan panic even more.","",""
"pirouette","Singular","UNKNOWN","3120","3","Sometimes they held hands, and other times they let go long enough for every other elf to turn a graceful pirouette.","",""
"cleaner","Noun","UNKNOWN","3121","3","It brought images of a younger world, a cleaner and more vibrant world.","",""
"drain","Verb","UNKNOWN","3122","3","Gradually, though, his resolve drained away and so did his strength.","",""
"navigate","Verb","UNKNOWN","3123","3","Elbryan still could not navigate this area, but he was gaining some understanding.","",""
"dread","Noun","UNKNOWN","3124","3","As the year progressed, as Avelyn further separated himself from the other three candidate Preparers, he came to dread his daytime matches against any of them, particularly Quintall.","",""
"mishap","Verb","UNKNOWN","3125","3","Inside, Avelyn glimpsed Siherton and Jojonah with the Father Abbot, the old man livid about the mishap in the stone room.","",""
"severe","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3126","3","Thagraine and Avelyn exchanged grave looks, given the man's uncharacteristic tone and the severe look on Quintall's face.","",""
"procedure","Noun","UNKNOWN","3127","3","Sometimes that work entailed exhaustive study, reading text after text and reciting procedures so many times in rapid succession that Avelyn would often continue reciting them after he had gone to sleep.","",""
"distinguish","Verb","UNKNOWN","3128","3","Their fear isolates them, and they often cannot distinguish friend from foe.","",""
"rival","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3129","3","By the third year, Master Siherton also became invaluable as a mediator between the two rivals from the class of God's Year 816, coaxing Quintall into easing up on his jealousy of Avelyn.","",""
"astonish","Verb","UNKNOWN","3130","3","But in the weekly sparring contests, Jill released enough enemies from her memories to carry her through with a ferocity that had astonished her superiors.","",""
"feat","Noun","UNKNOWN","3131","3","Brother Justice's first thought was that Avelyn had hired on with this obviously wealthy merchant, perhaps to perform some necessary feat with the stones, perhaps merely as a court jester.","",""
"vigorously","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3132","3","The hard-headed powrie shook its head vigorously, lips flapping.","",""
"accusing","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3133","3","Its head snapped about, an accusing glare falling over the trembling goblin.","",""
"urgently","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3134","3","So they went on, even more urgently, accepting the grate as a sure sign that they were in an important area, probably the dactyl's own.","",""
"onlooker","Noun","UNKNOWN","3135","3","The bells of the abbey pealed repeatedly, drawing curious onlookers from the nearby village of St.-Mere-Abelle.","",""
"surf","Noun","UNKNOWN","3136","3","As he neared the pounding surf, Avelyn shifted the amber into the hand holding the malachite and brought forth its powers as well.","",""
"horizontally","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3137","3","Elbryan presented his long pole horizontally in front of him; the elf responded by crossing his two smaller poles, replicas of slender elvish swords, in the air before him.","",""
"wharf","Noun","UNKNOWN","3138","3","A new wharf had been constructed, reaching far enough out into the bay so that the Windrunner could dock.","",""
"weightless","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3139","3","Every movement forced a countermovement from the weightless behemoth, and so, when the stupid thing brought its club high overhead for a mighty chop, the energy lifted the giant from the ground and tuned it right over in midair, a slow-motion somersault.","",""
"drip","Verb","UNKNOWN","3140","3","Avelyn's brown robes were tattered and dripping; he had the stench of burned hair about him.","",""
"dunk","Noun","UNKNOWN","3141","3","He put Elbryan's head under the liquid, brought him up, sputtering, then dunked him again.","",""
"semiconscious","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3142","3","For the boy who had just witnessed such carnage and loss, the semiconscious state was preferable.","",""
"mossy","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3143","3","He was on a mossy bank, a gentle slope that put his head comfortably above his feet.","",""
"aroma","Noun","UNKNOWN","3144","3","Elbryan's instincts - something about the air, perhaps, the aroma told him this was not the slope leading out of Dundalis up to the ridgeline, the slope where he had met the ...","",""
"discomfort","Noun","UNKNOWN","3145","3","The crew were blaming the monks for their discomfort, for this whole journey.","",""
"homeland","Noun","UNKNOWN","3146","3","He knew that he was nowhere near Dundalis; this mountain was nothing like the gentle, tree-covered hills of his homeland.","",""
"perpetual","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3147","3","Each day seemed as the last, an existence of perpetual watch and work.","",""
"proved","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3148","3","He started to run, first left, then up, then, when that course proved too difficult, back to the right, all the while calling out for his father or mother or for anyone.","",""
"bony","Noun","UNKNOWN","3149","3","Its limbs were incredibly slender, but they weren't bumpy and bony like Jilseponie's had been when she was much younger.","",""
"solidity","Noun","UNKNOWN","3150","3","Far from it; there was a sureness, a fluid solidity to the creature that warned Elbryan this tiny foe would be more difficult than any of the goblins he had battled, perhaps more difficult even than the giant.","",""
"treetop","Noun","UNKNOWN","3151","3","Elbryan had the distinct feeling the mist and the treetops were somehow connected.","",""
"childish","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3152","3","The creature's eyes were no less spectacular, two golden stars, they seemed, bright with childish innocence, yet deep with wisdom.","",""
"grayness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3153","3","Elbryan sprinted down the slope, back into the grayness, and found a smiling Juraviel waiting for him just a few feet beyond the mist's edge.","",""
"defiantly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3154","3","The young woman shook her head defiantly, then looked back at the stallion, who reared and whinnied, as if to prod her on.","",""
"utterly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3155","3","Then he realized that he was alone again, and utterly lost.","",""
"raiding","Noun","UNKNOWN","3156","3","If this boy knew of the evil races, then why was his village so utterly ill equipped to deal with a simple raiding party?","",""
"raw","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3157","3","The elf politely kept the question to himself, though, understanding the wounds were too raw in this young one.","",""
"comparison","Noun","UNKNOWN","3158","3","Something about the comparison, something she could not grasp, tugged hard at her, begging for release.","",""
"brook","Noun","UNKNOWN","3159","3","This grove - every flower, every bush, every tree and stone, and the trickling brook that crossed it - was something more than the ordinary forests of the region.","",""
"angrily","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3160","3","Cric started to respond, eagerly and angrily, it seemed to Elbryan, but the tall man went silent as Paulson stormed back over to the fire.","",""
"godliness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3161","3","It was the end, the end of hope, of any pretense of godliness.","",""
"considerably","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3162","3","Juraviel's smile calmed Elbryan considerably.","",""
"anxiety","Noun","UNKNOWN","3163","3","For Juraviel's anxiety was clearly etched on his fine features - how could it have been otherwise when he had been speaking to his protégé Elbryan about this very subject not a week's time past?","",""
"resignation","Singular","UNKNOWN","3164","3","Elbryan shifted to one knee, fitted a heavy arrow, and, with a sigh of complete resignation, let fly.","",""
"widening","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3165","3","The sharks would feed on the dead, and the frantic actions of those still alive combined with the widening blood spill would likely bring more in, he knew.","",""
"conduct","Noun","UNKNOWN","3166","3","Had they heeded their own code of conduct, the powries would have been repulsed.","",""
"rising","Noun","UNKNOWN","3167","3","Bunkus Smealy turned about and waved his hand forcefully, quieting the rising murmurs.","",""
"lurk","Verb","UNKNOWN","3168","3","Elbryan had that same impish quality about him as Mather, a love and luster of life, lurking just below the surface.","",""
"soaring","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3169","3","He had to know, and then, when he did know, he couldn't help but imagine the wonder of soaring through the air.","",""
"stoically","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3170","3","Even when giant footsteps were noted mingled in with those of the wretched smaller humanoids, the village leaders only shrugged stoically and began sharpening their long broadswords and heavy axes.","",""
"bobbing","Noun","UNKNOWN","3171","3","Avelyn finally reached Pellimar and hooked his arm around the bobbing man's shoulder.","",""
"beacon","Noun","UNKNOWN","3172","3","They are sparkles of unanswerable wonder, and, too, the beacons of hope.","",""
"ragged","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3173","3","Elbryan rolled his breeches up over his knees - not that the worn and ragged pants would stay that way for long!","",""
"singsong","Noun","UNKNOWN","3174","3","""Yes, mad brother Avelyn Desbris,"" she replied in the same singsong voice,","",""
"solstice","Noun","UNKNOWN","3175","3","By his reckoning, the winter solstice had passed, and he knew Dundalis, or what was left of the village, was likely under several feel of snow.","",""
"hardship","Noun","UNKNOWN","3176","3","And, again as befitted the race, they were undeniably hardy, tall and square shouldered, accustomed to hardship.","",""
"chilly","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3177","3","Thus it went for the bulk of the morning, for the bulk of every morning: the boy moving carefully about the chilly bog, collecting ten baskets of milk-stones.","",""
"cursed","Noun","UNKNOWN","3178","3","He picked up his basket, cursed when one pant leg slipped down into the water, then waded out through the reeds.","",""
"tea","Noun","UNKNOWN","3179","3","This day, Elbryan resolved, that tea would burn his tongue!","",""
"devilish","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3180","3","He found Bradwarden, at work crafting some devilish arrows, and the centaur's face immediately brightened.","",""
"layout","Noun","UNKNOWN","3181","3","Avelyn had described the general layout to them all, had told of the valley and of the lone mountain that maps named Aida.","",""
"leafy","Noun","UNKNOWN","3182","3","With the aid of a slanting sunbeam poking down through a break in the leafy boughs, he then spotted a series of nearly translucent trip lines, of height ranging from ankle to knee, blocking one long straight section of the trail.","",""
"opt","Verb","UNKNOWN","3183","3","The fire burned low - it had never been truly high, for Juraviel opted for caution, though he was fairly certain there were no monsters in the area, no organized groups anyway.","",""
"caution","Noun","UNKNOWN","3184","3","The fire burned low - it had never been truly high, for Juraviel opted for caution, though he was fairly certain there were no monsters in the area, no organized groups anyway.","",""
"zip","PastTense","UNKNOWN","3185","3","Something zipped by him, just under his chin.","",""
"entangle","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3186","3","He twisted his staff around the man's arm, hooking him under the armpit, stepped with his left foot across his body behind the man's entangled side, then heaved with all his strength, launching the wretch into the air to land heavily on his back and the back of his head.","",""
"coward","Noun","UNKNOWN","3187","3","Only a coward would shoot from the boughs.","",""
"overturn","Verb","UNKNOWN","3188","3","It struck the bowl of stew, overturning it and making a mess of the meal.","",""
"tantalizing","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3189","3","He found, however, that as soon as his left arm extended, his fist flying so tantalizing near Tuntun's swaying head, that his moment of control had passed.","",""
"distress","Verb","UNKNOWN","3190","3","Recognizing the boy's ultimate distress and embarrassment, Juraviel generously let the insult pass.","",""
"isolated","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3191","3","He felt so alone and isolated, felt as if he would have been better off had these vile elves not come and rescued him from the fomorian.","",""
"product","Noun","UNKNOWN","3192","3","Belli'mar Joycenevial nodded his head as he considered the product of his love.","",""
"sip","Noun","UNKNOWN","3193","3","She smiled at him again, pushed the wineglass, from which she had not sipped, back in front of him, and took her leave.","",""
"rein","Noun","UNKNOWN","3194","3","Elbryan slipped down from Symphony and handed his reins to Bradwarden.","",""
"twisting","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3195","3","Juraviel took full advantage, put Elbryan off balance and kept on twisting, angling the boy over the trough.","",""
"frightening","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3196","3","The situation came to a frightening head one especially hot humid morning.","",""
"fluidity","Noun","UNKNOWN","3197","3","Yet measured against the speed and agility of the elves, the fluidity of their movements, substituting perfect balance for lack of weight and strength, Elbryan truly felt a novice.","",""
"recognizable","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3198","3","The monk's body was hardly recognizable, a charred, smoldering thing.","",""
"visitor","Noun","UNKNOWN","3199","3","A whistle from the trees - from Tuntun, they realized - alerted them of a visitor, and a moment later, Brother Avelyn ambled in to join them.","",""
"frequent","Adjective","B2","3200","3","The noble visitors to Palmaris mostly stayed at the more haughty establishments, those near or within the duke's castle, but for those who knew, for the lesser merchants and the frequent wanderers, there was no better place in the world than Fellowship Way.","",""
"destroying","Noun","A2","3101","2","Elbryan nodded; he had heard of the fierce powries and their reputation for destroying human ships.","",""
"tidy","Adjective","A2","3102","2","There could be only one answer, for no living creature, not even one of the great dragons of the north, could so tear this amount of ground in such an even, tidy manner.","",""
"character","Noun","A2","3103","2","Tuntun was wrong, Juraviel knew without any doubt at all; this one had character.","",""
"oak","Noun","A2","3104","2","Juraviel found him at dawn, curled in a hollow at the base of a wide oak.","",""
"symbol","Noun","A2","3105","2","They are to me the shining symbol of all the unanswered questions of human existence, of our place in this vast sky, of our purpose, of death itself.","",""
"impossible","Adjective","A2","3106","2","Here, high stones lined both sides of the trail, making passage off the path nearly impossible unless Elbryan took a circuitous route quite deep into the underbrush.","",""
"joke","Noun","A2","3107","2","Avelyn saw nothing at all humorous in the ridiculous joke, nor did the few crewmen close enough at hand to hear the insults.","",""
"lovely","Adjective","A2","3108","2","She went for the walk, and truly had a lovely time, for she found that Connor was as easy to talk to as he was to look, at.","",""
"ideal","Noun","A2","3109","2","For in the Ring Stones, the young man found his ideals satisfied.","",""
"identify","Infinitive","A2","3110","2","He had learned to identify the various plants and their properties, often medicinal.","",""
"chat","Verb","A2","3111","2","Such were Juraviel's methods, his enchanting and engrossing conversation techniques, that Elbryan hardly realized this to be perhaps the most important part of his training, these daily chats, anecdotal and enjoyable.","",""
"worried","Adjective","A2","3112","2","Adjonas turned a worried glance at Quintall.","",""
"introduction","Singular","A2","3113","2","He stopped as Elbryan came out from behind the tree, the ranger rightly sensing that this introduction could go on for some time.","",""
"attend","PastTense","A2","3114","2","She would dress in the finest gowns and attend the highest social events in Palmaris, even in Ursal!","",""
"fitful","Adjective","A2","3115","2","His sleep every night was fitful, tossing and turning even more than did the Windrunner on the rough swells.","",""
"dealing","Noun","A2","3116","2","His actions now carried serious consequences concerning his future dealings with his three companions.","",""
"safely","Adverb","A2","3117","2","Finally came the welcome sound of oars and the boat, all three safely aboard.","",""
"weakened","Adjective","A2","3118","2","She couldn't even talk, and her dirk, like her sword before it, slipped uselessly from her weakened hand.","",""
"considering","Noun","A2","3119","2","The implications were clear, considering the man's lewd manner, and Grady and Connor shared a laugh.","",""
"helplessness","Noun","A2","3120","2","The centaur understood what the man was feeling, the sense of his own loss those years before and the helplessness now in the face of a repeat of that disaster.","",""
"including","Noun","A2","3121","2","Even if he beat these two, others were coming fast, including the one with the glowing spike!","",""
"crimson","Noun","A2","3122","2","Soft blues and purples, vivid oranges and sometimes a deep crimson lined the night sky, lifting hearts and spirits.","",""
"mister","Noun","A2","3123","2","""Fill our sails, Mister Smealy,"" he instructed.","",""
"haze","Noun","A2","3124","2","All the crew rushed to the forward rails, and soon enough the gray haze became more substantial, became the undeniable outline of an island, conical in shape.","",""
"worthless","Adjective","A2","3125","2","Not even with me worthless husband - might that be why he threw me out!""","",""
"review","Verb","A2","3126","2","Avelyn knew that he could say nothing about that time until he had reviewed his words with the Father Abbot.","",""
"pattern","Noun","A2","3127","2","The young man continued for nearly an hour, his arms and weapon weaving ever more intricate patterns in the empty air.","",""
"unit","Noun","A2","3128","2","One by one, her sparring partners had been dispatched, usually painfully, until clot a man or woman in the unit desired to go against her.","",""
"uniform","Noun","A2","3129","2","Soon, goblin scouts were about him, walking through the trees, talking in their whining voices, complaining about this or that, about the fit of their uniforms or some particularly nasty commander who talked more with his whip than his voice.","",""
"personality","Noun","A2","3130","2","He had no idea what title he would give the bow; that would come to him as the weapon took on its own personality, its own nuances.","",""
"hawk","Noun","A2","3131","2","""They'll come down like a mass o' swooping hawks,"" Bradwarden protested.","",""
"shrub","Noun","A2","3132","2","The land was relatively flat and brown, with sparse low shrubs poking here and there.","",""
"purposeful","Adjective","A2","3133","2","This was no accident but a purposeful attack on the bear.","",""
"passenger","Noun","A2","3134","2","The demon dactyl had been awake for several years, watching, feeling every slaughter of humans in the Wilderlands, tasting the blood of every corpse into which a powrie dipped its infamous cap, hearing the screams of sailors and passengers as each scuttled ship went under the swells of the merciless Mirianic.","",""
"lair","Noun","A2","3135","2","The passages forked many times, and they had to choose, without any guidance other than their own perceptions of where they might be and where the demon's lair was likely situated.","",""
"scoring","Noun","A2","3136","2","Another shot came thundering in, this one scoring a hit on Pireth Tulme's front wall, taking down some stones.","",""
"deserting","Noun","A2","3137","2","Soon Jill's hands were flapping inconsequentially at the powrie's barrel-like torso, her strength fast deserting her.","",""
"user","Noun","A2","3138","2","With practice, and more joinings, she could quickly rival all but the most powerful stone users of St.-Mere-Abelle","",""
"deserter","Noun","A2","3139","2","All of that was, of course, tempered by her realization that she was, in effect, a deserter.","",""
"lazy","Adjective","A2","3140","2","The sky brightened to a dull gray shortly before the dawn, another lazy snowstorm dropping scattered flakes that floated to and fro during their descent.","",""
"staggering","Adjective","A2","3141","2","The man fell away a couple of staggering steps, grabbed the back of a chair for support, and then fell over anyway, the chair tumbling down about him.","",""
"belonging","Noun","A2","3142","2","They gathered together their arrows and their belongings and set off at once, the centaur leading Elbryan deep into the forest, past the pine and the caribou moss, down a deep valley, then up its other side.","",""
"achieve","Verb","A2","3143","2","The greatest gift of the elves was this harmony the man had achieved, this joining of two philosophies, of two ways of looking at the world, of two ways to do battle.","",""
"platform","Noun","A2","3144","2","Mounted sidelong on a platform, the thing would have passed for a fair-sized ballista!","",""
"killer","Noun","A2","3145","2","She was sorry that Avelyn had been forced to act as thief and killer, sorry that this gentle man - and despite the barroom brawls, Pony knew Avelyn to be a gentle man - had been put into such an uncompromising position.","",""
"arguing","Noun","A2","3146","2","In mere hours, Bestesbulzibar covered the hundreds of miles to the base at Dundalis, where it found a rattled Gothra of the goblins and Maiyer Dek of the fomorian giants arguing fiercely.","",""
"protecting","Noun","A2","3147","2","Ye're smart enough to see that Pony needs little protecting.""","",""
"vine","Plural","A2","3148","2","Elbryan took the torch with him as he pushed aside the vines and entered the inner chamber.","",""
"device","Singular","A2","3149","2","Perhaps the stones served as a warning device to the masters back in St.-Mere-Abelle, a signal that Quintall was dead, that Quintall had failed.","",""
"shaken","Adjective","A2","3150","2","His only lament was that Pony seemed truly shaken by her return to this area.","",""
"bearish","Adjective","A2","3151","2","Elbryan let the boy down to Paulson's waiting grasp, and the ranger was touched by how gently the bearish man handled the youngster.","",""
"depend","Verb","A2","3152","2","To the small group whose very lives depended on absolute secrecy, there could have been no more unsettling possibility than that of a traitor in their midst.","",""
"lucky","Adjective","A2","3153","2","Avelyn could do nothing except pray that Elbryan and his riders were swift enough and lucky enough to get away.","",""
"growling","Adjective","A2","3154","2","The ominous growling increased tenfold, a hundredfold, deafening Avelyn, blocking the sounds of the dactyl's shrieks.","",""
"electricity","Noun","A2","3155","2","The demon's arms shot forward, fingers extended, and black tendrils of crackling electricity spouted from them, biting against the wall and running the length of the straight passage, nipping and snapping at Elbryan and Avelyn, at Pony and Bradwarden as they followed their friends around the bend.","",""
"shiny","Adjective","B1","3156","2","The texture of its skin was rough and thick, an armored hide, reddish in hue and shiny, as if lit by its own inner glow.","",""
"examine","Verb","B1","3157","2","Just a week before, Avelyn had melted a leg of one table while examining a ruby sprinkled with carnallite!","",""
"expedition","Singular","B1","3158","2","This would be the last time he remained behind when the hunters went off on the season's last and most important expedition.","",""
"sighting","Noun","B1","3159","2","The raid on Dundalis, the sightings of goblins and even giants, the evidence of many, earthquakes to the north of Andur'Blough Inninness - all pointed to the resurgence of the dactyl.","",""
"qualification","Singular","B1","3160","2","Elbryan's surprise at her qualification of the remark reflected clearly on his face.","",""
"mix","Noun","B1","3161","2","Piled in the emotional jumble were Elbryan's mixed feelings concerning the elves.","",""
"tunic","Noun","B1","3162","2","The shorter of the pair wore a light leather tunic and arm shields, metal sleeves hooked over the figure's thumbs and running from wrists to elbow.","",""
"primary","Adjective","B1","3163","2","On the ridge and in the vale beyond, the primary enemy became boredom.","",""
"gentleness","Noun","B1","3164","2","The kiss shifted, from curiosity to urgency, then back to gentleness.","",""
"falter","Verb","B1","3165","2","Without hesitation, for if he paused, he knew his courage surely would falter, Elbryan slipped out from behind the protection of the tree: Half walking, half crawling, he moved closer to the goblin, quickly covering a third of the distance.","",""
"ashen","Adjective","B1","3166","2","Carley dan Aubrey, one of the younger scouts, staggered toward him, his face ashen, both hands clenched firmly to his right side at his waist.","",""
"previously","Adverb","B1","3167","2","Pony remembered the building of the place, only two years previously.","",""
"divide","Verb","B1","3168","2","The class had been divided by birth dates; Avelyn and Quintall had been put, together solely because they had been born in the same week, and not for compatibility, either physical or emotional.","",""
"peacefully","Adverb","B1","3169","2","That is the vision that allowed Annalisa Desbris to pass on peacefully from this world.""","",""
"generous","Adjective","B1","3170","2","The bartender nodded, smiling, and gave his precious Cat - he still called her that - a generous and warm hug.","",""
"humor","Noun","B1","3171","2","He came to know aspects of Dansally that his companions would never think to look former witty sense of humor, tenderness, and her regrettable resignation for her station in life.","",""
"soil","Noun","B1","3172","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.","",""
"due","Adjective","B1","3173","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.","",""
"pretend","Verb","B1","3174","2","Tuntun pretended not to notice.","",""
"defiant","Adjective","B1","3175","2","Soothing sounds, and that made defiant Elbryan panic even more.","",""
"candidate","Noun","B1","3176","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.","",""
"supple","Noun","B1","3177","2","This creature's limbs didn't look skinny, any more than did the supple branches of a bending willow.","",""
"bending","Adjective","B1","3178","2","This creature's limbs didn't look skinny, any more than did the supple branches of a bending willow.","",""
"relative","Adjective","B1","3179","2","Juraviel had a response for that, a remark concerning the relative unpreparedness of Dundalis in the face of such knowledge.","",""
"strode","Noun","B1","3180","2","Before the startled young man could even ask how Belli'mar Juraviel might have come by his name, the creature turned and strode into the mist, disappearing from sight.","",""
"impulse","Noun","B1","3181","2","But the dactyl was not a stupid creature and could control its impulses, even those bent upon destruction, which the demon loved above all else.","",""
"unpleasant","Adjective","B1","3182","2","The ranger quickly removed his clothes, the grass feeling scratchy but not unpleasant to his feet.","",""
"gusting","Adjective","B1","3183","2","The weather was rough over the next few days - mercifully so, in Avelyn's estimation, because he and his companions were kept very busy, attending rigging, a dangerous yet thrilling exercise in the gusting winds, and crawling in the dark belowdecks, checking for leaks in the hull.","",""
"mess","Noun","B1","3184","2","It struck the bowl of stew, overturning it and making a mess of the meal.","",""
"behavior","Noun","B1","3185","2","For whatever had happened, today and in the days and weeks before, this stubborn behavior could only lead to disaster.","",""
"atmosphere","Noun","B1","3186","2","But she knew, too, the atmosphere of the Way, and the last thing in the world the young woman wanted was to make things difficult for Graevis and Pettibwa, her saviors.","",""
"champion","Noun","B1","3187","2","One in particular, handsomely dressed and well groomed, with light brown eyes that sparkled with intelligence and a calm demeanor that hinted at good breeding, nodded the young woman's way and smiled slightly, an invitation for Cat to name him as her champion.","",""
"contrast","Noun","B1","3188","2","His proper speech rang in sharp contrast to the street dialect of his parents.","",""
"reservation","Plural","B1","3189","2","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.","",""
"bell","Noun","B1","3190","2","The bells of the abbey pealed repeatedly, drawing curious onlookers from the nearby village of St.-Mere-Abelle.","",""
"clicking","Adjective","B1","3191","2","Elbryan uttered a soft clicking sound, and Symphony responded by lifting his ears and nickering.","",""
"represent","Verb","B1","3192","2","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.","",""
"vaguely","Adverb","B1","3193","2","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","B1","3194","2","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.","",""
"define","Verb","B1","3195","2","He was naked, at least from the belly up, with a powerful upper body, muscles clearly defined, and an arched back.","",""
"cheat","Verb","B1","3196","2","When the ways of merchants turn cheating,","",""
"awakening","Noun","B1","3197","2","Then he turned his attention to the awakening world about him.","",""
"occur","Verb","B1","3198","2","And so they fought, evenly matched, for a long while, poles sometimes slapping together so rapidly that it occurred to Elbryan that, if they had some kindling, they might light a fire from friction alone!","",""
"growth","Noun","B1","3199","2","With the elves, I felt a sense of personal growth, learning and training, perfecting my skills, always moving toward something better.","",""
"earthquake","Noun","B1","3200","2","The raid on Dundalis, the sightings of goblins and even giants, the evidence of many, earthquakes to the north of Andur'Blough Inninness - all pointed to the resurgence of the dactyl.","",""
1 lemma pos cefr_level coverage_rank global_frequency context_sentence context_sentence_zh definition_zh
2 fearing destroying Noun UNKNOWN A2 3101 3 2 And then she could look no more, fearing that she would find Thomas Ault, her father dear, among the dead. Elbryan nodded; he had heard of the fierce powries and their reputation for destroying human ships.
3 investigate tidy Infinitive Adjective B2 A2 3102 3 2 Pony thought she should go closer to investigate, but she hadn't the stomach. There could be only one answer, for no living creature, not even one of the great dragons of the north, could so tear this amount of ground in such an even, tidy manner.
4 numbness character Noun UNKNOWN A2 3103 3 2 She stood and stared, and a numbness came over her, stealing her emotions. Tuntun was wrong, Juraviel knew without any doubt at all; this one had character.
5 bravely oak Adverb Noun UNKNOWN A2 3104 3 2 Elbryan could see his father had died bravely, and understanding. Juraviel found him at dawn, curled in a hollow at the base of a wide oak.
6 forceful symbol Adjective Noun UNKNOWN A2 3105 3 2 his father's stern and forceful way, he was not surprised. They are to me the shining symbol of all the unanswered questions of human existence, of our place in this vast sky, of our purpose, of death itself.
7 stiffen impossible Verb Adjective UNKNOWN A2 3106 3 2 The elf straightened and stiffened, and leaned forward over the lunging boy's head and shoulders. Here, high stones lined both sides of the trail, making passage off the path nearly impossible unless Elbryan took a circuitous route quite deep into the underbrush.
8 uncertain joke Adjective Noun UNKNOWN A2 3107 3 2 Torn and uncertain, the ranger fitted an arrow to Hawkwing. Avelyn saw nothing at all humorous in the ridiculous joke, nor did the few crewmen close enough at hand to hear the insults.
9 exhaustion lovely Singular Adjective UNKNOWN A2 3108 3 2 Mercifully, Elbryan's grief had brought with it exhaustion, and the boy had found some sleep. She went for the walk, and truly had a lovely time, for she found that Connor was as easy to talk to as he was to look, at.
10 moist ideal Adjective Noun UNKNOWN A2 3109 3 2 It was warm; Elbryan felt that first, felt a soft, moist sensation gently touching all his skin. For in the Ring Stones, the young man found his ideals satisfied.
11 revenge identify Noun Infinitive UNKNOWN A2 3110 3 2 Despite very real fears, Elbryan wanted revenge. He had learned to identify the various plants and their properties, often medicinal.
12 transfer chat Verb B2 A2 3111 3 2 News that she would soon be transferred to Pireth Vanguard far to the north, did little to change Jill's sullen mood. Such were Juraviel's methods, his enchanting and engrossing conversation techniques, that Elbryan hardly realized this to be perhaps the most important part of his training, these daily chats, anecdotal and enjoyable.
13 lace worried Noun Adjective UNKNOWN A2 3112 3 2 Now, seeing her adorned in a white gown of satin and lace, her long, thick blond mane pinned up on one side and hanging loose on the other, she seemed made for royalty. Adjonas turned a worried glance at Quintall.
14 chief introduction Adjective Singular UNKNOWN A2 3113 3 2 Juraviel, Elbryan's chief sponsor with Lady Dasslerond, took it lightly. He stopped as Elbryan came out from behind the tree, the ranger rightly sensing that this introduction could go on for some time.
15 resourceful attend Adjective PastTense UNKNOWN A2 3114 3 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. She would dress in the finest gowns and attend the highest social events in Palmaris, even in Ursal!
16 conclusion fitful Noun Adjective UNKNOWN A2 3115 3 2 And to the young man who had somehow survived a goblin raid, such a conclusion meant it could only be one thing. His sleep every night was fitful, tossing and turning even more than did the Windrunner on the rough swells.
17 rationally dealing Adverb Noun UNKNOWN A2 3116 3 2 And now he was here, the best scenario he could rationally have hoped to find. His actions now carried serious consequences concerning his future dealings with his three companions.
18 casting safely Noun Adverb UNKNOWN A2 3117 3 2 The moon was above the easternmost boughs, casting slanted rays upon him, and he realized how foolish he had been and how vulnerable he now was. Finally came the welcome sound of oars and the boat, all three safely aboard.
19 flustered weakened Adjective UNKNOWN A2 3118 3 2 He looked at the flustered young monk, then across the deck at the other three. She couldn't even talk, and her dirk, like her sword before it, slipped uselessly from her weakened hand.
20 soothing considering Adjective Noun UNKNOWN A2 3119 3 2 Soothing sounds, and that made defiant Elbryan panic even more. The implications were clear, considering the man's lewd manner, and Grady and Connor shared a laugh.
21 pirouette helplessness Singular Noun UNKNOWN A2 3120 3 2 Sometimes they held hands, and other times they let go long enough for every other elf to turn a graceful pirouette. The centaur understood what the man was feeling, the sense of his own loss those years before and the helplessness now in the face of a repeat of that disaster.
22 cleaner including Noun UNKNOWN A2 3121 3 2 It brought images of a younger world, a cleaner and more vibrant world. Even if he beat these two, others were coming fast, including the one with the glowing spike!
23 drain crimson Verb Noun UNKNOWN A2 3122 3 2 Gradually, though, his resolve drained away and so did his strength. Soft blues and purples, vivid oranges and sometimes a deep crimson lined the night sky, lifting hearts and spirits.
24 navigate mister Verb Noun UNKNOWN A2 3123 3 2 Elbryan still could not navigate this area, but he was gaining some understanding. "Fill our sails, Mister Smealy," he instructed.
25 dread haze Noun UNKNOWN A2 3124 3 2 As the year progressed, as Avelyn further separated himself from the other three candidate Preparers, he came to dread his daytime matches against any of them, particularly Quintall. All the crew rushed to the forward rails, and soon enough the gray haze became more substantial, became the undeniable outline of an island, conical in shape.
26 mishap worthless Verb Adjective UNKNOWN A2 3125 3 2 Inside, Avelyn glimpsed Siherton and Jojonah with the Father Abbot, the old man livid about the mishap in the stone room. Not even with me worthless husband - might that be why he threw me out!"
27 severe review Adjective Verb UNKNOWN A2 3126 3 2 Thagraine and Avelyn exchanged grave looks, given the man's uncharacteristic tone and the severe look on Quintall's face. Avelyn knew that he could say nothing about that time until he had reviewed his words with the Father Abbot.
28 procedure pattern Noun UNKNOWN A2 3127 3 2 Sometimes that work entailed exhaustive study, reading text after text and reciting procedures so many times in rapid succession that Avelyn would often continue reciting them after he had gone to sleep. The young man continued for nearly an hour, his arms and weapon weaving ever more intricate patterns in the empty air.
29 distinguish unit Verb Noun UNKNOWN A2 3128 3 2 Their fear isolates them, and they often cannot distinguish friend from foe. One by one, her sparring partners had been dispatched, usually painfully, until clot a man or woman in the unit desired to go against her.
30 rival uniform Adjective Noun UNKNOWN A2 3129 3 2 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. Soon, goblin scouts were about him, walking through the trees, talking in their whining voices, complaining about this or that, about the fit of their uniforms or some particularly nasty commander who talked more with his whip than his voice.
31 astonish personality Verb Noun UNKNOWN A2 3130 3 2 But in the weekly sparring contests, Jill released enough enemies from her memories to carry her through with a ferocity that had astonished her superiors. He had no idea what title he would give the bow; that would come to him as the weapon took on its own personality, its own nuances.
32 feat hawk Noun UNKNOWN A2 3131 3 2 Brother Justice's first thought was that Avelyn had hired on with this obviously wealthy merchant, perhaps to perform some necessary feat with the stones, perhaps merely as a court jester. "They'll come down like a mass o' swooping hawks," Bradwarden protested.
33 vigorously shrub Adverb Noun UNKNOWN A2 3132 3 2 The hard-headed powrie shook its head vigorously, lips flapping. The land was relatively flat and brown, with sparse low shrubs poking here and there.
34 accusing purposeful Adjective UNKNOWN A2 3133 3 2 Its head snapped about, an accusing glare falling over the trembling goblin. This was no accident but a purposeful attack on the bear.
35 urgently passenger Adverb Noun UNKNOWN A2 3134 3 2 So they went on, even more urgently, accepting the grate as a sure sign that they were in an important area, probably the dactyl's own. The demon dactyl had been awake for several years, watching, feeling every slaughter of humans in the Wilderlands, tasting the blood of every corpse into which a powrie dipped its infamous cap, hearing the screams of sailors and passengers as each scuttled ship went under the swells of the merciless Mirianic.
36 onlooker lair Noun UNKNOWN A2 3135 3 2 The bells of the abbey pealed repeatedly, drawing curious onlookers from the nearby village of St.-Mere-Abelle. The passages forked many times, and they had to choose, without any guidance other than their own perceptions of where they might be and where the demon's lair was likely situated.
37 surf scoring Noun UNKNOWN A2 3136 3 2 As he neared the pounding surf, Avelyn shifted the amber into the hand holding the malachite and brought forth its powers as well. Another shot came thundering in, this one scoring a hit on Pireth Tulme's front wall, taking down some stones.
38 horizontally deserting Adverb Noun UNKNOWN A2 3137 3 2 Elbryan presented his long pole horizontally in front of him; the elf responded by crossing his two smaller poles, replicas of slender elvish swords, in the air before him. Soon Jill's hands were flapping inconsequentially at the powrie's barrel-like torso, her strength fast deserting her.
39 wharf user Noun UNKNOWN A2 3138 3 2 A new wharf had been constructed, reaching far enough out into the bay so that the Windrunner could dock. With practice, and more joinings, she could quickly rival all but the most powerful stone users of St.-Mere-Abelle
40 weightless deserter Adjective Noun UNKNOWN A2 3139 3 2 Every movement forced a countermovement from the weightless behemoth, and so, when the stupid thing brought its club high overhead for a mighty chop, the energy lifted the giant from the ground and tuned it right over in midair, a slow-motion somersault. All of that was, of course, tempered by her realization that she was, in effect, a deserter.
41 drip lazy Verb Adjective UNKNOWN A2 3140 3 2 Avelyn's brown robes were tattered and dripping; he had the stench of burned hair about him. The sky brightened to a dull gray shortly before the dawn, another lazy snowstorm dropping scattered flakes that floated to and fro during their descent.
42 dunk staggering Noun Adjective UNKNOWN A2 3141 3 2 He put Elbryan's head under the liquid, brought him up, sputtering, then dunked him again. The man fell away a couple of staggering steps, grabbed the back of a chair for support, and then fell over anyway, the chair tumbling down about him.
43 semiconscious belonging Adjective Noun UNKNOWN A2 3142 3 2 For the boy who had just witnessed such carnage and loss, the semiconscious state was preferable. They gathered together their arrows and their belongings and set off at once, the centaur leading Elbryan deep into the forest, past the pine and the caribou moss, down a deep valley, then up its other side.
44 mossy achieve Adjective Verb UNKNOWN A2 3143 3 2 He was on a mossy bank, a gentle slope that put his head comfortably above his feet. The greatest gift of the elves was this harmony the man had achieved, this joining of two philosophies, of two ways of looking at the world, of two ways to do battle.
45 aroma platform Noun UNKNOWN A2 3144 3 2 Elbryan's instincts - something about the air, perhaps, the aroma told him this was not the slope leading out of Dundalis up to the ridgeline, the slope where he had met the ... Mounted sidelong on a platform, the thing would have passed for a fair-sized ballista!
46 discomfort killer Noun UNKNOWN A2 3145 3 2 The crew were blaming the monks for their discomfort, for this whole journey. She was sorry that Avelyn had been forced to act as thief and killer, sorry that this gentle man - and despite the barroom brawls, Pony knew Avelyn to be a gentle man - had been put into such an uncompromising position.
47 homeland arguing Noun UNKNOWN A2 3146 3 2 He knew that he was nowhere near Dundalis; this mountain was nothing like the gentle, tree-covered hills of his homeland. In mere hours, Bestesbulzibar covered the hundreds of miles to the base at Dundalis, where it found a rattled Gothra of the goblins and Maiyer Dek of the fomorian giants arguing fiercely.
48 perpetual protecting Adjective Noun UNKNOWN A2 3147 3 2 Each day seemed as the last, an existence of perpetual watch and work. Ye're smart enough to see that Pony needs little protecting."
49 proved vine Adjective Plural UNKNOWN A2 3148 3 2 He started to run, first left, then up, then, when that course proved too difficult, back to the right, all the while calling out for his father or mother or for anyone. Elbryan took the torch with him as he pushed aside the vines and entered the inner chamber.
50 bony device Noun Singular UNKNOWN A2 3149 3 2 Its limbs were incredibly slender, but they weren't bumpy and bony like Jilseponie's had been when she was much younger. Perhaps the stones served as a warning device to the masters back in St.-Mere-Abelle, a signal that Quintall was dead, that Quintall had failed.
51 solidity shaken Noun Adjective UNKNOWN A2 3150 3 2 Far from it; there was a sureness, a fluid solidity to the creature that warned Elbryan this tiny foe would be more difficult than any of the goblins he had battled, perhaps more difficult even than the giant. His only lament was that Pony seemed truly shaken by her return to this area.
52 treetop bearish Noun Adjective UNKNOWN A2 3151 3 2 Elbryan had the distinct feeling the mist and the treetops were somehow connected. Elbryan let the boy down to Paulson's waiting grasp, and the ranger was touched by how gently the bearish man handled the youngster.
53 childish depend Adjective Verb UNKNOWN A2 3152 3 2 The creature's eyes were no less spectacular, two golden stars, they seemed, bright with childish innocence, yet deep with wisdom. To the small group whose very lives depended on absolute secrecy, there could have been no more unsettling possibility than that of a traitor in their midst.
54 grayness lucky Noun Adjective UNKNOWN A2 3153 3 2 Elbryan sprinted down the slope, back into the grayness, and found a smiling Juraviel waiting for him just a few feet beyond the mist's edge. Avelyn could do nothing except pray that Elbryan and his riders were swift enough and lucky enough to get away.
55 defiantly growling Adverb Adjective UNKNOWN A2 3154 3 2 The young woman shook her head defiantly, then looked back at the stallion, who reared and whinnied, as if to prod her on. The ominous growling increased tenfold, a hundredfold, deafening Avelyn, blocking the sounds of the dactyl's shrieks.
56 utterly electricity Adverb Noun UNKNOWN A2 3155 3 2 Then he realized that he was alone again, and utterly lost. The demon's arms shot forward, fingers extended, and black tendrils of crackling electricity spouted from them, biting against the wall and running the length of the straight passage, nipping and snapping at Elbryan and Avelyn, at Pony and Bradwarden as they followed their friends around the bend.
57 raiding shiny Noun Adjective UNKNOWN B1 3156 3 2 If this boy knew of the evil races, then why was his village so utterly ill equipped to deal with a simple raiding party? The texture of its skin was rough and thick, an armored hide, reddish in hue and shiny, as if lit by its own inner glow.
58 raw examine Adjective Verb UNKNOWN B1 3157 3 2 The elf politely kept the question to himself, though, understanding the wounds were too raw in this young one. Just a week before, Avelyn had melted a leg of one table while examining a ruby sprinkled with carnallite!
59 comparison expedition Noun Singular UNKNOWN B1 3158 3 2 Something about the comparison, something she could not grasp, tugged hard at her, begging for release. This would be the last time he remained behind when the hunters went off on the season's last and most important expedition.
60 brook sighting Noun UNKNOWN B1 3159 3 2 This grove - every flower, every bush, every tree and stone, and the trickling brook that crossed it - was something more than the ordinary forests of the region. The raid on Dundalis, the sightings of goblins and even giants, the evidence of many, earthquakes to the north of Andur'Blough Inninness - all pointed to the resurgence of the dactyl.
61 angrily qualification Adverb Singular UNKNOWN B1 3160 3 2 Cric started to respond, eagerly and angrily, it seemed to Elbryan, but the tall man went silent as Paulson stormed back over to the fire. Elbryan's surprise at her qualification of the remark reflected clearly on his face.
62 godliness mix Noun UNKNOWN B1 3161 3 2 It was the end, the end of hope, of any pretense of godliness. Piled in the emotional jumble were Elbryan's mixed feelings concerning the elves.
63 considerably tunic Adverb Noun UNKNOWN B1 3162 3 2 Juraviel's smile calmed Elbryan considerably. The shorter of the pair wore a light leather tunic and arm shields, metal sleeves hooked over the figure's thumbs and running from wrists to elbow.
64 anxiety primary Noun Adjective UNKNOWN B1 3163 3 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? On the ridge and in the vale beyond, the primary enemy became boredom.
65 resignation gentleness Singular Noun UNKNOWN B1 3164 3 2 Elbryan shifted to one knee, fitted a heavy arrow, and, with a sigh of complete resignation, let fly. The kiss shifted, from curiosity to urgency, then back to gentleness.
66 widening falter Adjective Verb UNKNOWN B1 3165 3 2 The sharks would feed on the dead, and the frantic actions of those still alive combined with the widening blood spill would likely bring more in, he knew. Without hesitation, for if he paused, he knew his courage surely would falter, Elbryan slipped out from behind the protection of the tree: Half walking, half crawling, he moved closer to the goblin, quickly covering a third of the distance.
67 conduct ashen Noun Adjective UNKNOWN B1 3166 3 2 Had they heeded their own code of conduct, the powries would have been repulsed. Carley dan Aubrey, one of the younger scouts, staggered toward him, his face ashen, both hands clenched firmly to his right side at his waist.
68 rising previously Noun Adverb UNKNOWN B1 3167 3 2 Bunkus Smealy turned about and waved his hand forcefully, quieting the rising murmurs. Pony remembered the building of the place, only two years previously.
69 lurk divide Verb UNKNOWN B1 3168 3 2 Elbryan had that same impish quality about him as Mather, a love and luster of life, lurking just below the surface. The class had been divided by birth dates; Avelyn and Quintall had been put, together solely because they had been born in the same week, and not for compatibility, either physical or emotional.
70 soaring peacefully Adjective Adverb UNKNOWN B1 3169 3 2 He had to know, and then, when he did know, he couldn't help but imagine the wonder of soaring through the air. That is the vision that allowed Annalisa Desbris to pass on peacefully from this world."
71 stoically generous Adverb Adjective UNKNOWN B1 3170 3 2 Even when giant footsteps were noted mingled in with those of the wretched smaller humanoids, the village leaders only shrugged stoically and began sharpening their long broadswords and heavy axes. The bartender nodded, smiling, and gave his precious Cat - he still called her that - a generous and warm hug.
72 bobbing humor Noun UNKNOWN B1 3171 3 2 Avelyn finally reached Pellimar and hooked his arm around the bobbing man's shoulder. He came to know aspects of Dansally that his companions would never think to look former witty sense of humor, tenderness, and her regrettable resignation for her station in life.
73 beacon soil Noun UNKNOWN B1 3172 3 2 They are sparkles of unanswerable wonder, and, too, the beacons of hope. 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.
74 ragged due Adjective UNKNOWN B1 3173 3 2 Elbryan rolled his breeches up over his knees - not that the worn and ragged pants would stay that way for long! 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.
75 singsong pretend Noun Verb UNKNOWN B1 3174 3 2 "Yes, mad brother Avelyn Desbris," she replied in the same singsong voice, Tuntun pretended not to notice.
76 solstice defiant Noun Adjective UNKNOWN B1 3175 3 2 By his reckoning, the winter solstice had passed, and he knew Dundalis, or what was left of the village, was likely under several feel of snow. Soothing sounds, and that made defiant Elbryan panic even more.
77 hardship candidate Noun UNKNOWN B1 3176 3 2 And, again as befitted the race, they were undeniably hardy, tall and square shouldered, accustomed to hardship. 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.
78 chilly supple Adjective Noun UNKNOWN B1 3177 3 2 Thus it went for the bulk of the morning, for the bulk of every morning: the boy moving carefully about the chilly bog, collecting ten baskets of milk-stones. This creature's limbs didn't look skinny, any more than did the supple branches of a bending willow.
79 cursed bending Noun Adjective UNKNOWN B1 3178 3 2 He picked up his basket, cursed when one pant leg slipped down into the water, then waded out through the reeds. This creature's limbs didn't look skinny, any more than did the supple branches of a bending willow.
80 tea relative Noun Adjective UNKNOWN B1 3179 3 2 This day, Elbryan resolved, that tea would burn his tongue! Juraviel had a response for that, a remark concerning the relative unpreparedness of Dundalis in the face of such knowledge.
81 devilish strode Adjective Noun UNKNOWN B1 3180 3 2 He found Bradwarden, at work crafting some devilish arrows, and the centaur's face immediately brightened. Before the startled young man could even ask how Belli'mar Juraviel might have come by his name, the creature turned and strode into the mist, disappearing from sight.
82 layout impulse Noun UNKNOWN B1 3181 3 2 Avelyn had described the general layout to them all, had told of the valley and of the lone mountain that maps named Aida. But the dactyl was not a stupid creature and could control its impulses, even those bent upon destruction, which the demon loved above all else.
83 leafy unpleasant Noun Adjective UNKNOWN B1 3182 3 2 With the aid of a slanting sunbeam poking down through a break in the leafy boughs, he then spotted a series of nearly translucent trip lines, of height ranging from ankle to knee, blocking one long straight section of the trail. The ranger quickly removed his clothes, the grass feeling scratchy but not unpleasant to his feet.
84 opt gusting Verb Adjective UNKNOWN B1 3183 3 2 The fire burned low - it had never been truly high, for Juraviel opted for caution, though he was fairly certain there were no monsters in the area, no organized groups anyway. The weather was rough over the next few days - mercifully so, in Avelyn's estimation, because he and his companions were kept very busy, attending rigging, a dangerous yet thrilling exercise in the gusting winds, and crawling in the dark belowdecks, checking for leaks in the hull.
85 caution mess Noun UNKNOWN B1 3184 3 2 The fire burned low - it had never been truly high, for Juraviel opted for caution, though he was fairly certain there were no monsters in the area, no organized groups anyway. It struck the bowl of stew, overturning it and making a mess of the meal.
86 zip behavior PastTense Noun UNKNOWN B1 3185 3 2 Something zipped by him, just under his chin. For whatever had happened, today and in the days and weeks before, this stubborn behavior could only lead to disaster.
87 entangle atmosphere Gerund Noun UNKNOWN B1 3186 3 2 He twisted his staff around the man's arm, hooking him under the armpit, stepped with his left foot across his body behind the man's entangled side, then heaved with all his strength, launching the wretch into the air to land heavily on his back and the back of his head. But she knew, too, the atmosphere of the Way, and the last thing in the world the young woman wanted was to make things difficult for Graevis and Pettibwa, her saviors.
88 coward champion Noun UNKNOWN B1 3187 3 2 Only a coward would shoot from the boughs. One in particular, handsomely dressed and well groomed, with light brown eyes that sparkled with intelligence and a calm demeanor that hinted at good breeding, nodded the young woman's way and smiled slightly, an invitation for Cat to name him as her champion.
89 overturn contrast Verb Noun UNKNOWN B1 3188 3 2 It struck the bowl of stew, overturning it and making a mess of the meal. His proper speech rang in sharp contrast to the street dialect of his parents.
90 tantalizing reservation Adjective Plural UNKNOWN B1 3189 3 2 He found, however, that as soon as his left arm extended, his fist flying so tantalizing near Tuntun's swaying head, that his moment of control had passed. 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.
91 distress bell Verb Noun UNKNOWN B1 3190 3 2 Recognizing the boy's ultimate distress and embarrassment, Juraviel generously let the insult pass. The bells of the abbey pealed repeatedly, drawing curious onlookers from the nearby village of St.-Mere-Abelle.
92 isolated clicking Adjective UNKNOWN B1 3191 3 2 He felt so alone and isolated, felt as if he would have been better off had these vile elves not come and rescued him from the fomorian. Elbryan uttered a soft clicking sound, and Symphony responded by lifting his ears and nickering.
93 product represent Noun Verb UNKNOWN B1 3192 3 2 Belli'mar Joycenevial nodded his head as he considered the product of his love. 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.
94 sip vaguely Noun Adverb UNKNOWN B1 3193 3 2 She smiled at him again, pushed the wineglass, from which she had not sipped, back in front of him, and took her leave. Strange emotions swirled in Cat as he lightly touched her arm, vaguely familiar feelings but ones she had not felt in several years.
95 rein happiness Noun UNKNOWN B1 3194 3 2 Elbryan slipped down from Symphony and handed his reins to Bradwarden. 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.
96 twisting define Adjective Verb UNKNOWN B1 3195 3 2 Juraviel took full advantage, put Elbryan off balance and kept on twisting, angling the boy over the trough. He was naked, at least from the belly up, with a powerful upper body, muscles clearly defined, and an arched back.
97 frightening cheat Adjective Verb UNKNOWN B1 3196 3 2 The situation came to a frightening head one especially hot humid morning. When the ways of merchants turn cheating,
98 fluidity awakening Noun UNKNOWN B1 3197 3 2 Yet measured against the speed and agility of the elves, the fluidity of their movements, substituting perfect balance for lack of weight and strength, Elbryan truly felt a novice. Then he turned his attention to the awakening world about him.
99 recognizable occur Adjective Verb UNKNOWN B1 3198 3 2 The monk's body was hardly recognizable, a charred, smoldering thing. And so they fought, evenly matched, for a long while, poles sometimes slapping together so rapidly that it occurred to Elbryan that, if they had some kindling, they might light a fire from friction alone!
100 visitor growth Noun UNKNOWN B1 3199 3 2 A whistle from the trees - from Tuntun, they realized - alerted them of a visitor, and a moment later, Brother Avelyn ambled in to join them. With the elves, I felt a sense of personal growth, learning and training, perfecting my skills, always moving toward something better.
101 frequent earthquake Adjective Noun B2 B1 3200 3 2 The noble visitors to Palmaris mostly stayed at the more haughty establishments, those near or within the duke's castle, but for those who knew, for the lesser merchants and the frequent wanderers, there was no better place in the world than Fellowship Way. The raid on Dundalis, the sightings of goblins and even giants, the evidence of many, earthquakes to the north of Andur'Blough Inninness - all pointed to the resurgence of the dactyl.