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"lemma","pos","cefr_level","coverage_rank","global_frequency","context_sentence","context_sentence_zh","definition_zh"
"explore","Verb","UNKNOWN","3301","3","What he came to understand from that viewpoint was a sense of self he had never before felt free to explore.","",""
"etch","Verb","UNKNOWN","3302","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?","",""
"occurrence","Singular","UNKNOWN","3303","3","Gradually, as he came to see the light in Jill's eyes every time he entered the Way - a more and more common occurrence - the proud young man began to understand and accept that her problem was within the mysteries of her past and not with him.","",""
"predict","Verb","UNKNOWN","3304","3","The reaction of Pettibwa and Graevis to the news of the marriage was not hard to predict.","",""
"virgin","Noun","UNKNOWN","3305","3","Elbryan smiled wickedly as he considered those steep hillsides, all of varied angles and deep with virgin snow.","",""
"wench","Noun","UNKNOWN","3306","3","""You teasing little wench.","",""
"carriage","Noun","UNKNOWN","3307","3","It was a ceremony that had all of Palmaris talking; the women swooning, the men standing tall, feigning importance, wishing they were in the carriage in Connor Bildeborough's place as it made its winding way, through the streets.","",""
"peasant","Noun","UNKNOWN","3308","3","Any reservations that the nobleman's family had held toward the peasant orphan girl had been washed away when they met Jill, truly beautiful both inside and out.","",""
"blond","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3309","3","Jill shook her head, her short shock of blond hair bouncing about.","",""
"attendance","Noun","UNKNOWN","3310","3","It was bad enough that the carriage would roll through every part of the large city, bad enough that more than five hundred people would be in attendance at the church when she and Connor were wed, but the thought of what would come later, after the grand ball ...","",""
"gentlemen","Noun","UNKNOWN","3311","3","After the carnage ride, the newlyweds came to a hall filled with music and drink, with ladies and gentlemen spinning about, twirling and laughing.","",""
"suggestion","Plural","UNKNOWN","3312","3","Elbryan only smiled, but Bradwarden's suggestion did not seem like such a bad idea.","",""
"nightgown","Noun","UNKNOWN","3313","3","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.","",""
"glassy","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3314","3","Hour after endless hour, day after endless day, the Windrunner glided lazily across the sparkling glassy surface of the South Mirianic.","",""
"emptiness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3315","3","Elbryan closed his eyes, sympathetic to the tale, understanding completely the plight of these people, the horrible emptiness that some of them now felt, the complete hopelessness.","",""
"intimacy","Noun","UNKNOWN","3316","3","The issue of physical intimacy did not come up between them during those weeks, for both of them had found a more special intimacy, far more satisfying.","",""
"starboard","Noun","UNKNOWN","3317","3","Another ball of flaming pitch soared out from the monastery, skipping in along the starboard rail of the vessel, igniting the mainsail into one tremendous flame.","",""
"damnation","Singular","UNKNOWN","3318","3","Farther back along the deck, Avelyn was close enough to hear Captain Adjonas mutter, ""Damnation.""","",""
"pedal","Noun","UNKNOWN","3319","3","The dwarves can pedal all day, while most men tire within the hour - or after a couple of hours, at most.""","",""
"cargo","Noun","UNKNOWN","3320","3","He did not wake up until long after the dawn, his precious cargo intact in his pack.","",""
"tarry","Verb","UNKNOWN","3321","3","Avelyn blanched, so did Thagraine and Pellimar, but Quintall only let out a low growl and tarried his gaze back in the direction of the distant powrie ship.","",""
"bound","Noun","UNKNOWN","3322","3","Avelyn feared that Quintall, in issuing such a clear order, might have overstepped his bounds this time.","",""
"tail","Verb","UNKNOWN","3323","3","Thinking that the centaur had changed his mind and was trying to flee, the giant lunged for that tail, but Bradwarden's haunches came up high, the centaur kicking out with both his hind legs, hard hooves perfectly aligned with the stooping monster's ugly face.","",""
"tread","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3324","3","Once in the water, Avelyn found Quintall treading high not so far away, half his body clear of the sea.","",""
"greasy","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3325","3","Bunkus Smealy turned his greasy grin on Avelyn, holding one hand up, his thumb and index finger about five inches apart.","",""
"crazed","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3326","3","Half-crazed, his entire world shattered, Avelyn understood.","",""
"leaning","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3327","3","He found Quintall standing with Adjonas, the captain, looking weary, leaning against the mainmast.","",""
"provision","Plural","UNKNOWN","3328","3","Perhaps it was the boredom, the heat, or the tasteless provisions, but the crew grew increasingly uneasy, even hostile.","",""
"uneasy","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3329","3","Perhaps it was the boredom, the heat, or the tasteless provisions, but the crew grew increasingly uneasy, even hostile.","",""
"ensue","Verb","UNKNOWN","3330","3","A long moment of silence ensued, all five - the three humans, Juraviel, and Tuntun - feeling the weight of confirmation.","",""
"cough","Verb","UNKNOWN","3331","3","Smealy pulled away, coughing and, predictably, turned to the crew for help.","",""
"plea","Singular","UNKNOWN","3332","3","""We're too far out,"" he said to his captain, his plea sounding as a whine.","",""
"lagoon","Noun","UNKNOWN","3333","3","So they circled, spotting one promising lagoon, and then sailed out to deeper waters for the longest five days of the trip, particularly for Avelyn and Thagraine.","",""
"withstand","Noun","UNKNOWN","3334","3","On board Quintall launched right away into lies about the dangers to the foolish seaman, about how the monks, and the monks alone, were trained to withstand the fury of the showers.","",""
"accusation","Singular","UNKNOWN","3335","3","The accusation hit.","",""
"purplish","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3336","3","The hundreds of purplish rings converged in the middle of the room.","",""
"seal","Verb","UNKNOWN","3337","3","To his relief, they did not, but rather they fell against the metal, using their bulk to seal off any chance of entry.","",""
"gaping","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3338","3","Avelyn meant to turn him over, but he could not find his breath when he looked at the fatal wound, a gaping hole smashed right through Thagraine's skull, brain matter splattered all about.","",""
"splatter","Verb","UNKNOWN","3339","3","One fireball hit against the village's east wall, splattering the two men standing nearby with burning pitch.","",""
"remnant","Noun","UNKNOWN","3340","3","Many showed no magical power at all, and Avelyn soon realized that these were the remnants of previous showers, brought up to the surface by the battering of the storm.","",""
"egg","Noun","UNKNOWN","3341","3","He selected an egg-sized hematite next, and then a ruby, small but flawless to his trained eye.","",""
"dramatic","Adjective","B2","3342","3","Only then did Avelyn take the time to note that dramatic change that had come over Pimaninicuit.","",""
"unyielding","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3343","3","Gofflaw growled at her, but under Jill's unyielding glare, he replaced his sword in its sheath.","",""
"retain","Noun","UNKNOWN","3344","3","But his orders concerning Pimaninicuit had been explicit and unyielding: only those stones treated to retain their magic could be brought from the island.","",""
"overwhelmed","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3345","3","Thus, Avelyn simply sat staring outward, too overwhelmed even to eat, and waited for the Windrunner.","",""
"grumbling","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3346","3","Aside from Paulson's typical grumbling, he caught no direction to their conversation.","",""
"emerald","Noun","UNKNOWN","3347","3","At the first town he entered, he happened upon a caravan of several merchant wagons, and there he sold the common emerald, giving him all the funds he would need for a long, long time.","",""
"remorse","Noun","UNKNOWN","3348","3","Elbryan nodded, glad that the man felt some remorse for his traitorous actions.","",""
"supposedly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3349","3","He saw reflected in the mirror those images that had been peripheral to him at that time: a supposedly ill man standing at the side of the camp and, more important, the expression on that man's face, hardly noticed at the time, but clear now to Elbryan.","",""
"recoil","Verb","UNKNOWN","3350","3","Avelyn recoiled instinctively, out of shyness.","",""
"reduce","Verb","B2","3351","3","The man would be reduced to an instrument of destruction, Avelyn's destruction.","",""
"surrounding","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3352","3","The one advantage on the ranger's side was his knowledge of the region surrounding Weedy Meadow.","",""
"suspicious","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3353","3","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.","",""
"wager","Noun","UNKNOWN","3354","3","Perhaps he hadn't really done it right, or perhaps Adjonas had ordered her to bed Avelyn, or even had made a wager with her that she could not bed the man.","",""
"chapel","Noun","UNKNOWN","3355","3","Avelyn ran from the chapel, skittering down the empty halls, his footsteps echoing noisily.","",""
"creation","Singular","UNKNOWN","3356","3","He knew the properties of diamonds, the creation of light, but had never used quartz.","",""
"hopelessly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3357","3","Juraviel sighed and looked hopelessly at his Lady, his guilt obvious upon his fair face.","",""
"ebb","Noun","UNKNOWN","3358","3","The strong ebb tide of All Saints Bay would collect the flotsam and jetsam and carry it out to the open sea.","",""
"flatly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3359","3","""They knew,"" Elbryan said flatly: ""They had to know.""","",""
"commit","Verb","UNKNOWN","3360","3","He was somewhat concerned that no sounds of battle came to him from further south, from the lead group, but he and his companions were committed, he knew, and would have to trust that Pony would not let the goblins and giant get behind them, cutting off any quick retreat.","",""
"spy","Noun","UNKNOWN","3361","3","He didn't really know what he would do, other than spy on the masters and confirm his fears of his approaching fate.","",""
"auction","Verb","UNKNOWN","3362","3","They were talking about a private auction of the sacred stones!","",""
"rod","Noun","UNKNOWN","3363","3","Then Avelyn and the remaining guard began selecting and collecting stones: the giant crystal amethyst, a rod of graphite, a small but potent ruby, and several others, including turquoise and amber, celestine and a tiger's paw, a chrysoberyl, or cat's eye, some gypsum and malachite, a sheet of chrysotile, and a piece of heavy magnetite.","",""
"inanimate","Singular","UNKNOWN","3364","3","Avelyn rolled out of the way; the inanimate stone crashed down and rolled from the dais.","",""
"pursuing","Noun","UNKNOWN","3365","3","With the malachite, he floated gently over cliffs that any pursuing monks would spend hours climbing down.","",""
"cone","Noun","UNKNOWN","3366","3","Spotting him, the great stallion reared and snorted, its breath coming out as a great cone of steam.","",""
"definite","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3367","3","The elf had been searching for Symphony, her desires formulating into a definite plan.","",""
"seeming","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3368","3","That seeming contradiction had left Elbryan in a quandary.","",""
"interpretation","Plural","UNKNOWN","3369","3","What was, in the horse's eyes, simply was with no interpretation, an efficient and perfect way of perception that sorted through emotion, that lived in the present without concern for the future or interference from the past.","",""
"sliver","Noun","UNKNOWN","3370","3","Again came the spinning slivers, two in rapid succession, this time angled higher to hit the monster about the head.","",""
"dasada","Noun","UNKNOWN","3371","3","Every morning he performed bi'nelle dasada and then his physical conditioning with the milk-stones.","",""
"intricate","Verb","UNKNOWN","3372","3","The young man continued for nearly an hour, his arms and weapon weaving ever more intricate patterns in the empty air.","",""
"strategy","Noun","UNKNOWN","3373","3","Every attack and parry angle became ingrained in him; what had been conscious battle strategy melded into a reactive response or an anticipatory strike.","",""
"significance","Noun","UNKNOWN","3374","3","""You do not even understand the significance,"" Tuntun replied distastefully.","",""
"unending","Verb","UNKNOWN","3375","3","Even Juraviel couldn't suppress a chuckle at his elven companion's unending games.","",""
"hence","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3376","3","How will they judge me twenty years hence, a mere day by an elf's measure?.","",""
"initially","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3377","3","Indeed she had thrived; initially, at least, in the military.","",""
"fearsome","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3378","3","Elbryan smiled wryly at Bradwarden before the fearsome centaur could take offense.","",""
"coastline","Noun","UNKNOWN","3379","3","Luck was with her, though, for the coastline remained in sight, towering black mountains marking the southern horizon.","",""
"disastrous","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3380","3","Jill, whose only experience with a man had been so very disastrous, did not like the odds.","",""
"resign","Verb","UNKNOWN","3381","3","She gave a sigh, resigned to the reality about her.","",""
"consistent","Adjective","B2","3382","3","Silvery lines wove gracefully about the dark green stem; they seemed to Elbryan consistent with the fishing lines and the bowstrings the elves used.","",""
"underworld","Noun","UNKNOWN","3383","3","Into the spike, the demon sent its power, the strength of the underworld, the strength to burn.","",""
"irony","Noun","UNKNOWN","3384","3","Again, Elbryan sat back, smiling at the irony of it all.","",""
"unprepared","Verb","UNKNOWN","3385","3","The cries of the doomed pair had alerted Elbryan and the others to the danger, so they were not unprepared when the first of the giants crashed through the brush and charged over the rim of the bowl-shaped encampment.","",""
"aged","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3386","3","Juraviel explained as the aged elf came out of his home and slowly descended.","",""
"frond","Noun","UNKNOWN","3387","3","all, one whose broad fronds were above Elbryan's head.","",""
"implement","Verb","B2","3388","3","He recognized the implements of the trapping trade hanging all about the shack, along with dozens of drying pelts.","",""
"pliable","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3389","3","Elbryan thought on that for a moment, particularly on Juraviel's last claim that the plants were pliable.","",""
"encompass","Verb","UNKNOWN","3390","3","The song came louder, faster, and Juraviel began to dance delicate, spinning circles wrapped in a larger circle that encompassed the plants.","",""
"praise","Verb","UNKNOWN","3391","3","Juraviel praised him once, then started away, Elbryan in tow.","",""
"powder","Noun","UNKNOWN","3392","3","Without explanation, Lady Dasslerond then threw a handful of glittering powder in Elbryan's face.","",""
"stripe","Noun","UNKNOWN","3393","3","The twirling elf tossed several puffs of powder upon the plant, then bent low and with some reddish gel painted a stripe around the base of the stem just an inch or two from the ground.","",""
"scrub","Noun","UNKNOWN","3394","3","Every time his concentration wavered even a bit, his arrow flew wide of the mark, disappearing into the forest scrub.","",""
"skyward","Noun","UNKNOWN","3395","3","Juraviel remained at the glowing fire pit until all had gone, his eyes ever skyward, looking for the blackest of forms.","",""
"demise","Noun","UNKNOWN","3396","3","In so pointedly reminding Elbryan and the others of the higher goal, the centaur helped them to put Tuntun's demise in proper perspective.","",""
"deepen","Verb","UNKNOWN","3397","3","As their friendship deepened, their trust becoming so strong, Avelyn again dared to use the hematite to instruct Jill.","",""
"covering","Noun","UNKNOWN","3398","3","He moved inside the grove, across the covering of snow to the secret cairn.","",""
"tilt","Verb","UNKNOWN","3399","3","Elbryan tilted back his head, considering the stars, the few rushing clouds.","",""
"deceive","Verb","UNKNOWN","3400","3","They had named the ranger Nightbird, and so the elf's dream had not deceived him.","",""
"outweigh","Verb","UNKNOWN","3301","2","To Avelyn Desbris, nothing in all the world, not the treasures of a dragon's hoard, nor the powers of a king, could outweigh that accomplishment.","",""
"troublesome","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3302","2","For the adults, the specter of the goblins brought a sobering wariness and then a troublesome distraction.","",""
"lively","Adjective","B2","3303","2","The moment ended all too soon, Cat-the-Stray tuning back to the bustle of the lively room about her.","",""
"rust","Noun","UNKNOWN","3304","2","Pony left Avelyn's side then, rusting to join with Elbryan.","",""
"retaliation","Singular","UNKNOWN","3305","2","Elbryan was over him in an instant, more to protect him from the angry crowd than in any fear of retaliation.","",""
"scenario","Noun","B2","3306","2","Pony sympathized with the young man, but logically, this was the best scenario they could have hoped for.","",""
"salvage","Noun","UNKNOWN","3307","2","Elbryan walked a crooked path to the food and stubbornly salvaged what he could.","",""
"disgustedly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3308","2","Jojonah looked to Siherton, who was shaking his head disgustedly.","",""
"vain","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3309","2","If he won now, then his friends, all of them, would not have died in vain.","",""
"curve","Noun","B2","3310","2","He dared to put his arms around Pony's back, dared to pull her closer, feeling the strangely interesting curves and bumps of her body against his own as they came together.","",""
"genuine","Adjective","B2","3311","2","Again, the fears passed, lost in a swirl of warmth as he looked at Pony's shining blue eyes, at her smile, as genuine and joyful as anything Elbryan had ever seen.","",""
"joyful","Adjective","B2","3312","2","Again, the fears passed, lost in a swirl of warmth as he looked at Pony's shining blue eyes, at her smile, as genuine and joyful as anything Elbryan had ever seen.","",""
"ruffle","Verb","UNKNOWN","3313","2","Elbryan growled softly and brought both his hands up to ruffle his light brown hair.","",""
"horrified","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3314","2","And then suddenly, it was gone, destroyed by a horrified, and horrifying, scream.","",""
"swarming","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3315","2","The couple jumped apart and to their feet, staring wide-eyed down the long slope to the village, at the swarming forms, at the large plume of smoke -","",""
"initiative","Noun","B2","3316","2","This was an action of a rogue goblin chieftain, perhaps, or one of the many powrie raiding parties, acting on their own initiative, bringing misery to the wretched humans.","",""
"formation","Singular","B2","3317","2","He would gather together his scouts, perhaps even call in the older scouts from the vale, and charge down into Dundalis in tight formation, anchoring the defense.","",""
"bedsheets","Noun","UNKNOWN","3318","2","That logical, adult part of Pony - the part that knew that the time of fending off nightmares with bedsheets was long past - told her without doubt that Dundalis could not survive.","",""
"catastrophe","Noun","UNKNOWN","3319","2","I may die soon following this course before me, but out here, at one with my spirit and my nature, on the edges of catastrophe, I have lived many times more than most will ever know.","",""
"clobber","Verb","UNKNOWN","3320","2","The man's mind whirled through the possibilities, all jumbled with the horror that he had erred, that he was about to get clobbered.","",""
"valiant","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3321","2","And then Olwan came flying back into sight, falling in a broken heap on the road right in the midst of the valiant fighters.","",""
"getting","Noun","UNKNOWN","3322","2","Paulson drew out his large sword and motioned for Cric to go in at his side, while Chipmunk was to go to the higher ground around to the right, getting an angle for his dagger throws.","",""
"mockery","Noun","UNKNOWN","3323","2","As if in a grotesque mockery of that hope, a goblin marched around that corner, bearing down on the girl.","",""
"skidding","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3324","2","The call brought the sprinting lad to a skidding halt.","",""
"jut","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3325","2","Elbryan grimaced, and Carley whimpered and nearly vomited, when Elbryan's hand brushed against the broken tip of a spear jutting from Carley's side.","",""
"overcoat","Noun","UNKNOWN","3326","2","He tore off his overcoat and pulled open his leather vest, quickly unbuttoning the sleeves of his white shirt.","",""
"flop","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3327","2","The creature went berserk, kicking and thrashing, flopping like a landed fish.","",""
"temperament","Noun","UNKNOWN","3328","2","Physically, by all accounts, he was the image of his father in Graevis' younger days, but by Cat's estimation, Grady could not have been more different than Graevis in temperament.","",""
"firework","Noun","B2","3329","2","They were opposites in temperament, as well: Avelyn calm and reverent, always in control, and Quintall a ""firework,"" as Master Siherton, the class overseer, often appropriately referred to him.","",""
"disgust","Verb","UNKNOWN","3330","2","Elbryan shook his head in disgust, but he reminded himself to keep a measure of respect.","",""
"gauge","Noun","UNKNOWN","3331","2","Dosey interrupted, his tales only for an occasional belch; so lost was he in his own sense of importance that he hardly bothered to gauge the monk's reaction.","",""
"noncommittally","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3332","2","The man with the broken arm shrugged noncommittally, then turned to the bartender, who likewise had no answers.","",""
"overt","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3333","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","3334","2","Jojonah looked back at the courtyard, to Avelyn at work as always as though nothing was amiss.","",""
"macabre","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3335","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","3336","2","""I despise his inhumanity,"" replied Siherton.","",""
"inhumanity","Noun","UNKNOWN","3337","2","Was it, as Siherton insisted, the young man's apparent inhumanity?","",""
"smug","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3338","2","That smug look by the ranger spurred the proud Quintall into a charge.","",""
"stairwell","Noun","UNKNOWN","3339","2","Jill looked straight ahead as she made for the door to the stairwell that would get her down to her room.","",""
"guarantee","Verb","B2","3340","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","3341","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.","",""
"offense","Noun","B2","3342","2","Elbryan smiled wryly at Bradwarden before the fearsome centaur could take offense.","",""
"testament","Noun","UNKNOWN","3343","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","3344","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","3345","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.","",""
"adorn","Verb","UNKNOWN","3346","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","3347","2","Tol bowed his head, his face contorting as he struggled, pragmatism against conscience.","",""
"altogether","Adverb","B2","3348","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","3349","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","3350","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.","",""
"deserving","Adjective","B2","3351","2","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","3352","2","Still the tears came; every so often his even tone was broken by a sniffle or a sob.","",""
"compose","Verb","B2","3353","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","3354","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.","",""
"enwrap","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3355","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","B2","3356","2","Elbryan's brow furrowed as he considered the words, as their implications began to unfold before him.","",""
"blasphemous","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3357","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","3358","2","The room inside was well lit, though Avelyn saw no torches and didn't smell the usual odor of burning wood.","",""
"pretense","Noun","UNKNOWN","3359","2","It was the end, the end of hope, of any pretense of godliness.","",""
"ecstasy","Noun","UNKNOWN","3360","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","3361","2","Elbryan let fly a wide-arcing left hook as he spun back toward the elf.","",""
"tile","Noun","UNKNOWN","3362","2","Elbryan tried hard to get past his monk friend, then, to take up the lead and close tile distance to the monster.","",""
"alien","Noun","B2","3363","2","He talked of the humours of the body joining together with the alien humours of the stones to create the seemingly magical reaction.","",""
"carrion","Noun","UNKNOWN","3364","2","She heard the cawing of the birds - carrion birds, she knew.","",""
"lumber","Noun","UNKNOWN","3365","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.","",""
"survivor","Noun","B2","3366","2","Into the night, the four survivors went, stumbling blindly, separated, two and two, with a third of their party dead.","",""
"guttural","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3367","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","3368","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","3369","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.","",""
"preferable","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3370","2","For the boy who had just witnessed such carnage and loss, the semiconscious state was preferable.","",""
"tearing","Noun","B2","3371","2","Elbryan jerked fiercely, once and then again, the tearing jolts straightening the agonized fomorian.","",""
"crushed","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3372","2","Goblins and powries scattered or were crushed beneath the charge, a hundred wild horses stampeding along the ravine.","",""
"vulture","Plural","UNKNOWN","3373","2","Surely all the world had fallen to ruin; surely all the people were dead, were being pecked and torn by vultures.","",""
"feast","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3374","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","3375","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","3376","2","Jill was too bedraggled to blush or even to care.","",""
"unbelievable","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3377","2","In the span of a few unbelievable minutes, Elbryan's entire world had been thrown down.","",""
"northernmost","Noun","UNKNOWN","3378","2","Finally they got behind the back wall of the northernmost house in the village, just beneath the forested slope.","",""
"slack","Noun","UNKNOWN","3379","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.","",""
"carralee","Noun","UNKNOWN","3380","2","Carralee Ault, Pony's cousin, Elbryan realized, for she was the only baby in town.","",""
"fondness","Noun","B2","3381","2","Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans.","",""
"bumbling","Noun","UNKNOWN","3382","2","Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans.","",""
"spade","Noun","UNKNOWN","3383","2","He put his sword in his belt, found a spade; and began to dig.","",""
"suffice","Verb","UNKNOWN","3384","2","That would have to suffice.","",""
"underneath","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3385","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","3386","2","Even Tuntun was impressed by his stamina.","",""
"adept","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3387","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","3388","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","3389","2","The teasing fairy song, remaining at the very edge of his consciousness, led Elbryan on for many minutes.","",""
"circular","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3390","2","It was fairly circular, perhaps eight feet in diameter.","",""
"distaste","Noun","UNKNOWN","3391","2","Avelyn scrunched his face with distaste and disbelief.","",""
"coarse","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3392","2","The coarse image burned in Avelyn's mind.","",""
"seamanship","Noun","UNKNOWN","3393","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","3394","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.","",""
"reputed","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3395","2","He knew its reputed properties, of course, but he had never attempted to use them.","",""
"protege","Noun","UNKNOWN","3396","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","B2","3397","2","To see such human frailty in the masters of St.-Mere-Abelle touched the very core of Avelyn's faith.","",""
"retrieval","Noun","UNKNOWN","3398","2","All that should have mattered was the retrieval of the stones.","",""
"daytime","Noun","UNKNOWN","3399","2","The daytime training was not as easy or as inspiring for Avelyn.","",""
"frigid","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3400","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.","",""
1 lemma pos cefr_level coverage_rank global_frequency context_sentence context_sentence_zh definition_zh
2 explore outweigh Verb UNKNOWN 3301 3 2 What he came to understand from that viewpoint was a sense of self he had never before felt free to explore. To Avelyn Desbris, nothing in all the world, not the treasures of a dragon's hoard, nor the powers of a king, could outweigh that accomplishment.
3 etch troublesome Verb Adjective UNKNOWN 3302 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? For the adults, the specter of the goblins brought a sobering wariness and then a troublesome distraction.
4 occurrence lively Singular Adjective UNKNOWN B2 3303 3 2 Gradually, as he came to see the light in Jill's eyes every time he entered the Way - a more and more common occurrence - the proud young man began to understand and accept that her problem was within the mysteries of her past and not with him. The moment ended all too soon, Cat-the-Stray tuning back to the bustle of the lively room about her.
5 predict rust Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3304 3 2 The reaction of Pettibwa and Graevis to the news of the marriage was not hard to predict. Pony left Avelyn's side then, rusting to join with Elbryan.
6 virgin retaliation Noun Singular UNKNOWN 3305 3 2 Elbryan smiled wickedly as he considered those steep hillsides, all of varied angles and deep with virgin snow. Elbryan was over him in an instant, more to protect him from the angry crowd than in any fear of retaliation.
7 wench scenario Noun UNKNOWN B2 3306 3 2 "You teasing little wench. Pony sympathized with the young man, but logically, this was the best scenario they could have hoped for.
8 carriage salvage Noun UNKNOWN 3307 3 2 It was a ceremony that had all of Palmaris talking; the women swooning, the men standing tall, feigning importance, wishing they were in the carriage in Connor Bildeborough's place as it made its winding way, through the streets. Elbryan walked a crooked path to the food and stubbornly salvaged what he could.
9 peasant disgustedly Noun Adverb UNKNOWN 3308 3 2 Any reservations that the nobleman's family had held toward the peasant orphan girl had been washed away when they met Jill, truly beautiful both inside and out. Jojonah looked to Siherton, who was shaking his head disgustedly.
10 blond vain Adjective UNKNOWN 3309 3 2 Jill shook her head, her short shock of blond hair bouncing about. If he won now, then his friends, all of them, would not have died in vain.
11 attendance curve Noun UNKNOWN B2 3310 3 2 It was bad enough that the carriage would roll through every part of the large city, bad enough that more than five hundred people would be in attendance at the church when she and Connor were wed, but the thought of what would come later, after the grand ball ... He dared to put his arms around Pony's back, dared to pull her closer, feeling the strangely interesting curves and bumps of her body against his own as they came together.
12 gentlemen genuine Noun Adjective UNKNOWN B2 3311 3 2 After the carnage ride, the newlyweds came to a hall filled with music and drink, with ladies and gentlemen spinning about, twirling and laughing. Again, the fears passed, lost in a swirl of warmth as he looked at Pony's shining blue eyes, at her smile, as genuine and joyful as anything Elbryan had ever seen.
13 suggestion joyful Plural Adjective UNKNOWN B2 3312 3 2 Elbryan only smiled, but Bradwarden's suggestion did not seem like such a bad idea. Again, the fears passed, lost in a swirl of warmth as he looked at Pony's shining blue eyes, at her smile, as genuine and joyful as anything Elbryan had ever seen.
14 nightgown ruffle Noun Verb UNKNOWN 3313 3 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. Elbryan growled softly and brought both his hands up to ruffle his light brown hair.
15 glassy horrified Adjective UNKNOWN 3314 3 2 Hour after endless hour, day after endless day, the Windrunner glided lazily across the sparkling glassy surface of the South Mirianic. And then suddenly, it was gone, destroyed by a horrified, and horrifying, scream.
16 emptiness swarming Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3315 3 2 Elbryan closed his eyes, sympathetic to the tale, understanding completely the plight of these people, the horrible emptiness that some of them now felt, the complete hopelessness. The couple jumped apart and to their feet, staring wide-eyed down the long slope to the village, at the swarming forms, at the large plume of smoke -
17 intimacy initiative Noun UNKNOWN B2 3316 3 2 The issue of physical intimacy did not come up between them during those weeks, for both of them had found a more special intimacy, far more satisfying. This was an action of a rogue goblin chieftain, perhaps, or one of the many powrie raiding parties, acting on their own initiative, bringing misery to the wretched humans.
18 starboard formation Noun Singular UNKNOWN B2 3317 3 2 Another ball of flaming pitch soared out from the monastery, skipping in along the starboard rail of the vessel, igniting the mainsail into one tremendous flame. He would gather together his scouts, perhaps even call in the older scouts from the vale, and charge down into Dundalis in tight formation, anchoring the defense.
19 damnation bedsheets Singular Noun UNKNOWN 3318 3 2 Farther back along the deck, Avelyn was close enough to hear Captain Adjonas mutter, "Damnation." That logical, adult part of Pony - the part that knew that the time of fending off nightmares with bedsheets was long past - told her without doubt that Dundalis could not survive.
20 pedal catastrophe Noun UNKNOWN 3319 3 2 The dwarves can pedal all day, while most men tire within the hour - or after a couple of hours, at most." I may die soon following this course before me, but out here, at one with my spirit and my nature, on the edges of catastrophe, I have lived many times more than most will ever know.
21 cargo clobber Noun Verb UNKNOWN 3320 3 2 He did not wake up until long after the dawn, his precious cargo intact in his pack. The man's mind whirled through the possibilities, all jumbled with the horror that he had erred, that he was about to get clobbered.
22 tarry valiant Verb Adjective UNKNOWN 3321 3 2 Avelyn blanched, so did Thagraine and Pellimar, but Quintall only let out a low growl and tarried his gaze back in the direction of the distant powrie ship. And then Olwan came flying back into sight, falling in a broken heap on the road right in the midst of the valiant fighters.
23 bound getting Noun UNKNOWN 3322 3 2 Avelyn feared that Quintall, in issuing such a clear order, might have overstepped his bounds this time. Paulson drew out his large sword and motioned for Cric to go in at his side, while Chipmunk was to go to the higher ground around to the right, getting an angle for his dagger throws.
24 tail mockery Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3323 3 2 Thinking that the centaur had changed his mind and was trying to flee, the giant lunged for that tail, but Bradwarden's haunches came up high, the centaur kicking out with both his hind legs, hard hooves perfectly aligned with the stooping monster's ugly face. As if in a grotesque mockery of that hope, a goblin marched around that corner, bearing down on the girl.
25 tread skidding Gerund Adjective UNKNOWN 3324 3 2 Once in the water, Avelyn found Quintall treading high not so far away, half his body clear of the sea. The call brought the sprinting lad to a skidding halt.
26 greasy jut Adjective Gerund UNKNOWN 3325 3 2 Bunkus Smealy turned his greasy grin on Avelyn, holding one hand up, his thumb and index finger about five inches apart. Elbryan grimaced, and Carley whimpered and nearly vomited, when Elbryan's hand brushed against the broken tip of a spear jutting from Carley's side.
27 crazed overcoat Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3326 3 2 Half-crazed, his entire world shattered, Avelyn understood. He tore off his overcoat and pulled open his leather vest, quickly unbuttoning the sleeves of his white shirt.
28 leaning flop Adjective Gerund UNKNOWN 3327 3 2 He found Quintall standing with Adjonas, the captain, looking weary, leaning against the mainmast. The creature went berserk, kicking and thrashing, flopping like a landed fish.
29 provision temperament Plural Noun UNKNOWN 3328 3 2 Perhaps it was the boredom, the heat, or the tasteless provisions, but the crew grew increasingly uneasy, even hostile. Physically, by all accounts, he was the image of his father in Graevis' younger days, but by Cat's estimation, Grady could not have been more different than Graevis in temperament.
30 uneasy firework Adjective Noun UNKNOWN B2 3329 3 2 Perhaps it was the boredom, the heat, or the tasteless provisions, but the crew grew increasingly uneasy, even hostile. They were opposites in temperament, as well: Avelyn calm and reverent, always in control, and Quintall a "firework," as Master Siherton, the class overseer, often appropriately referred to him.
31 ensue disgust Verb UNKNOWN 3330 3 2 A long moment of silence ensued, all five - the three humans, Juraviel, and Tuntun - feeling the weight of confirmation. Elbryan shook his head in disgust, but he reminded himself to keep a measure of respect.
32 cough gauge Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3331 3 2 Smealy pulled away, coughing and, predictably, turned to the crew for help. Dosey interrupted, his tales only for an occasional belch; so lost was he in his own sense of importance that he hardly bothered to gauge the monk's reaction.
33 plea noncommittally Singular Adverb UNKNOWN 3332 3 2 "We're too far out," he said to his captain, his plea sounding as a whine. The man with the broken arm shrugged noncommittally, then turned to the bartender, who likewise had no answers.
34 lagoon overt Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3333 3 2 So they circled, spotting one promising lagoon, and then sailed out to deeper waters for the longest five days of the trip, particularly for Avelyn and Thagraine. 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.
35 withstand amiss Noun UNKNOWN 3334 3 2 On board Quintall launched right away into lies about the dangers to the foolish seaman, about how the monks, and the monks alone, were trained to withstand the fury of the showers. Jojonah looked back at the courtyard, to Avelyn at work as always as though nothing was amiss.
36 accusation macabre Singular Adjective UNKNOWN 3335 3 2 The accusation hit. 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.
37 purplish despise Adjective Verb UNKNOWN 3336 3 2 The hundreds of purplish rings converged in the middle of the room. "I despise his inhumanity," replied Siherton.
38 seal inhumanity Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3337 3 2 To his relief, they did not, but rather they fell against the metal, using their bulk to seal off any chance of entry. Was it, as Siherton insisted, the young man's apparent inhumanity?
39 gaping smug Adjective UNKNOWN 3338 3 2 Avelyn meant to turn him over, but he could not find his breath when he looked at the fatal wound, a gaping hole smashed right through Thagraine's skull, brain matter splattered all about. That smug look by the ranger spurred the proud Quintall into a charge.
40 splatter stairwell Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3339 3 2 One fireball hit against the village's east wall, splattering the two men standing nearby with burning pitch. Jill looked straight ahead as she made for the door to the stairwell that would get her down to her room.
41 remnant guarantee Noun Verb UNKNOWN B2 3340 3 2 Many showed no magical power at all, and Avelyn soon realized that these were the remnants of previous showers, brought up to the surface by the battering of the storm. 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.
42 egg syllable Noun UNKNOWN 3341 3 2 He selected an egg-sized hematite next, and then a ruby, small but flawless to his trained eye. 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.
43 dramatic offense Adjective Noun B2 3342 3 2 Only then did Avelyn take the time to note that dramatic change that had come over Pimaninicuit. Elbryan smiled wryly at Bradwarden before the fearsome centaur could take offense.
44 unyielding testament Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3343 3 2 Gofflaw growled at her, but under Jill's unyielding glare, he replaced his sword in its sheath. 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?
45 retain cushiony Noun UNKNOWN 3344 3 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. 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.
46 overwhelmed trinket Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3345 3 2 Thus, Avelyn simply sat staring outward, too overwhelmed even to eat, and waited for the Windrunner. 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.
47 grumbling adorn Adjective Verb UNKNOWN 3346 3 2 Aside from Paulson's typical grumbling, he caught no direction to their conversation. 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.
48 emerald pragmatism Noun UNKNOWN 3347 3 2 At the first town he entered, he happened upon a caravan of several merchant wagons, and there he sold the common emerald, giving him all the funds he would need for a long, long time. Tol bowed his head, his face contorting as he struggled, pragmatism against conscience.
49 remorse altogether Noun Adverb UNKNOWN B2 3348 3 2 Elbryan nodded, glad that the man felt some remorse for his traitorous actions. Elbryan dismissed the notion altogether; he was on the eastern edge of the Moorlands by now, not so far from human settlements.
50 supposedly stool Adverb Noun UNKNOWN 3349 3 2 He saw reflected in the mirror those images that had been peripheral to him at that time: a supposedly ill man standing at the side of the camp and, more important, the expression on that man's face, hardly noticed at the time, but clear now to Elbryan. 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.
51 recoil farewell Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3350 3 2 Avelyn recoiled instinctively, out of shyness. 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.
52 reduce deserving Verb Adjective B2 3351 3 2 The man would be reduced to an instrument of destruction, Avelyn's destruction. The Abellican Church, the ancient scriptures, promised heaven to those deserving, and who could be more deserving than gentle and generous Annalisa Desbris?
53 surrounding sniffle Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3352 3 2 The one advantage on the ranger's side was his knowledge of the region surrounding Weedy Meadow. Still the tears came; every so often his even tone was broken by a sniffle or a sob.
54 suspicious compose Adjective Verb UNKNOWN B2 3353 3 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. 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.
55 wager splendor Noun UNKNOWN 3354 3 2 Perhaps he hadn't really done it right, or perhaps Adjonas had ordered her to bed Avelyn, or even had made a wager with her that she could not bed the man. 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.
56 chapel enwrap Noun Gerund UNKNOWN 3355 3 2 Avelyn ran from the chapel, skittering down the empty halls, his footsteps echoing noisily. Scenes of the Halo, the heavenly gift, enwrapping all the others, an oval because of the angle at which it was portrayed.
57 creation unfold Singular Verb UNKNOWN B2 3356 3 2 He knew the properties of diamonds, the creation of light, but had never used quartz. Elbryan's brow furrowed as he considered the words, as their implications began to unfold before him.
58 hopelessly blasphemous Adverb Adjective UNKNOWN 3357 3 2 Juraviel sighed and looked hopelessly at his Lady, his guilt obvious upon his fair face. 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.
59 ebb odor Noun UNKNOWN 3358 3 2 The strong ebb tide of All Saints Bay would collect the flotsam and jetsam and carry it out to the open sea. The room inside was well lit, though Avelyn saw no torches and didn't smell the usual odor of burning wood.
60 flatly pretense Adverb Noun UNKNOWN 3359 3 2 "They knew," Elbryan said flatly: "They had to know." It was the end, the end of hope, of any pretense of godliness.
61 commit ecstasy Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3360 3 2 He was somewhat concerned that no sounds of battle came to him from further south, from the lead group, but he and his companions were committed, he knew, and would have to trust that Pony would not let the goblins and giant get behind them, cutting off any quick retreat. 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.
62 spy arcing Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3361 3 2 He didn't really know what he would do, other than spy on the masters and confirm his fears of his approaching fate. Elbryan let fly a wide-arcing left hook as he spun back toward the elf.
63 auction tile Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3362 3 2 They were talking about a private auction of the sacred stones! Elbryan tried hard to get past his monk friend, then, to take up the lead and close tile distance to the monster.
64 rod alien Noun UNKNOWN B2 3363 3 2 Then Avelyn and the remaining guard began selecting and collecting stones: the giant crystal amethyst, a rod of graphite, a small but potent ruby, and several others, including turquoise and amber, celestine and a tiger's paw, a chrysoberyl, or cat's eye, some gypsum and malachite, a sheet of chrysotile, and a piece of heavy magnetite. He talked of the humours of the body joining together with the alien humours of the stones to create the seemingly magical reaction.
65 inanimate carrion Singular Noun UNKNOWN 3364 3 2 Avelyn rolled out of the way; the inanimate stone crashed down and rolled from the dais. She heard the cawing of the birds - carrion birds, she knew.
66 pursuing lumber Noun UNKNOWN 3365 3 2 With the malachite, he floated gently over cliffs that any pursuing monks would spend hours climbing down. 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.
67 cone survivor Noun UNKNOWN B2 3366 3 2 Spotting him, the great stallion reared and snorted, its breath coming out as a great cone of steam. Into the night, the four survivors went, stumbling blindly, separated, two and two, with a third of their party dead.
68 definite guttural Adjective UNKNOWN 3367 3 2 The elf had been searching for Symphony, her desires formulating into a definite plan. 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.
69 seeming decidedly Adjective Adverb UNKNOWN 3368 3 2 That seeming contradiction had left Elbryan in a quandary. 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.
70 interpretation sunlight Plural Noun UNKNOWN 3369 3 2 What was, in the horse's eyes, simply was with no interpretation, an efficient and perfect way of perception that sorted through emotion, that lived in the present without concern for the future or interference from the past. 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.
71 sliver preferable Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3370 3 2 Again came the spinning slivers, two in rapid succession, this time angled higher to hit the monster about the head. For the boy who had just witnessed such carnage and loss, the semiconscious state was preferable.
72 dasada tearing Noun UNKNOWN B2 3371 3 2 Every morning he performed bi'nelle dasada and then his physical conditioning with the milk-stones. Elbryan jerked fiercely, once and then again, the tearing jolts straightening the agonized fomorian.
73 intricate crushed Verb Adjective UNKNOWN 3372 3 2 The young man continued for nearly an hour, his arms and weapon weaving ever more intricate patterns in the empty air. Goblins and powries scattered or were crushed beneath the charge, a hundred wild horses stampeding along the ravine.
74 strategy vulture Noun Plural UNKNOWN 3373 3 2 Every attack and parry angle became ingrained in him; what had been conscious battle strategy melded into a reactive response or an anticipatory strike. Surely all the world had fallen to ruin; surely all the people were dead, were being pecked and torn by vultures.
75 significance feast Noun Gerund UNKNOWN 3374 3 2 "You do not even understand the significance," Tuntun replied distastefully. 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.
76 unending peck Verb Gerund UNKNOWN 3375 3 2 Even Juraviel couldn't suppress a chuckle at his elven companion's unending games. Surely all the world had fallen to ruin; surely all the people were dead, were being pecked and torn by vultures.
77 hence bedraggle Adverb Verb UNKNOWN 3376 3 2 How will they judge me twenty years hence, a mere day by an elf's measure?. Jill was too bedraggled to blush or even to care.
78 initially unbelievable Adverb Adjective UNKNOWN 3377 3 2 Indeed she had thrived; initially, at least, in the military. In the span of a few unbelievable minutes, Elbryan's entire world had been thrown down.
79 fearsome northernmost Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3378 3 2 Elbryan smiled wryly at Bradwarden before the fearsome centaur could take offense. Finally they got behind the back wall of the northernmost house in the village, just beneath the forested slope.
80 coastline slack Noun UNKNOWN 3379 3 2 Luck was with her, though, for the coastline remained in sight, towering black mountains marking the southern horizon. - 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.
81 disastrous carralee Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3380 3 2 Jill, whose only experience with a man had been so very disastrous, did not like the odds. Carralee Ault, Pony's cousin, Elbryan realized, for she was the only baby in town.
82 resign fondness Verb Noun UNKNOWN B2 3381 3 2 She gave a sigh, resigned to the reality about her. Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans.
83 consistent bumbling Adjective Noun B2 UNKNOWN 3382 3 2 Silvery lines wove gracefully about the dark green stem; they seemed to Elbryan consistent with the fishing lines and the bowstrings the elves used. Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans.
84 underworld spade Noun UNKNOWN 3383 3 2 Into the spike, the demon sent its power, the strength of the underworld, the strength to burn. He put his sword in his belt, found a spade; and began to dig.
85 irony suffice Noun Verb UNKNOWN 3384 3 2 Again, Elbryan sat back, smiling at the irony of it all. That would have to suffice.
86 unprepared underneath Verb Adjective UNKNOWN 3385 3 2 The cries of the doomed pair had alerted Elbryan and the others to the danger, so they were not unprepared when the first of the giants crashed through the brush and charged over the rim of the bowl-shaped encampment. So he ran on, hauling bodies, peeking under rubble, kicking aside piles of dead goblins to see who might be underneath.
87 aged stamen Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3386 3 2 Juraviel explained as the aged elf came out of his home and slowly descended. Even Tuntun was impressed by his stamina.
88 frond adept Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3387 3 2 all, one whose broad fronds were above Elbryan's head. 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.
89 implement nag Verb B2 UNKNOWN 3388 3 2 He recognized the implements of the trapping trade hanging all about the shack, along with dozens of drying pelts. Then another thought nagged at the young man, a notion that he had heard this song before, though he could not place it..
90 pliable fairy Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3389 3 2 Elbryan thought on that for a moment, particularly on Juraviel's last claim that the plants were pliable. The teasing fairy song, remaining at the very edge of his consciousness, led Elbryan on for many minutes.
91 encompass circular Verb Adjective UNKNOWN 3390 3 2 The song came louder, faster, and Juraviel began to dance delicate, spinning circles wrapped in a larger circle that encompassed the plants. It was fairly circular, perhaps eight feet in diameter.
92 praise distaste Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3391 3 2 Juraviel praised him once, then started away, Elbryan in tow. Avelyn scrunched his face with distaste and disbelief.
93 powder coarse Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3392 3 2 Without explanation, Lady Dasslerond then threw a handful of glittering powder in Elbryan's face. The coarse image burned in Avelyn's mind.
94 stripe seamanship Noun UNKNOWN 3393 3 2 The twirling elf tossed several puffs of powder upon the plant, then bent low and with some reddish gel painted a stripe around the base of the stem just an inch or two from the ground. 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.
95 scrub latitude Noun UNKNOWN 3394 3 2 Every time his concentration wavered even a bit, his arrow flew wide of the mark, disappearing into the forest scrub. 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.
96 skyward reputed Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3395 3 2 Juraviel remained at the glowing fire pit until all had gone, his eyes ever skyward, looking for the blackest of forms. He knew its reputed properties, of course, but he had never attempted to use them.
97 demise protege Noun UNKNOWN 3396 3 2 In so pointedly reminding Elbryan and the others of the higher goal, the centaur helped them to put Tuntun's demise in proper perspective. 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?
98 deepen core Verb Noun UNKNOWN B2 3397 3 2 As their friendship deepened, their trust becoming so strong, Avelyn again dared to use the hematite to instruct Jill. To see such human frailty in the masters of St.-Mere-Abelle touched the very core of Avelyn's faith.
99 covering retrieval Noun UNKNOWN 3398 3 2 He moved inside the grove, across the covering of snow to the secret cairn. All that should have mattered was the retrieval of the stones.
100 tilt daytime Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3399 3 2 Elbryan tilted back his head, considering the stars, the few rushing clouds. The daytime training was not as easy or as inspiring for Avelyn.
101 deceive frigid Verb Adjective UNKNOWN 3400 3 2 They had named the ranger Nightbird, and so the elf's dream had not deceived him. 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.