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"lemma","pos","cefr_level","coverage_rank","global_frequency","context_sentence","context_sentence_zh","definition_zh"
"smoothness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3401","3","He was amazed by its balance, by the smoothness of its long and comfortable draw.","",""
"tied","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3402","3","A quick tug showed Elbryan that it was tied off a short distance up the ledge.","",""
"don","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3403","3","With a trusting nod, the woman donned the mask, as did Elbryan, the ranger eyeing Pony all the while, admiring her gumption.","",""
"traveling","Noun","UNKNOWN","3404","3","Brother Justice had heard many descriptions of the woman traveling beside the mad friar, and as he looked upon this woman now, upon her lips, so thick and full, her stunning blue eyes, and that thick mane of golden hair, he knew.","",""
"sparse","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3405","3","The land was relatively flat and brown, with sparse low shrubs poking here and there.","",""
"inspection","Singular","UNKNOWN","3406","3","Elbryan continued his inspection of the stream to make sure that nothing ominous was swimming along its course, then hooked his pack on the stiff branch of a prickly shrub and gingerly removed his boots.","",""
"territory","Noun","UNKNOWN","3407","3","However, Elbryan was not in any human settlement, not in any land claimed by his kind, and quite possibly was within the boundaries of goblin territory.","",""
"justify","Verb","B2","3408","3","If that was the case, would he be justified in waging battle with these six?","",""
"knocking","Noun","UNKNOWN","3409","3","Elbryan swept his staff out to the left, knocking aside a club strike, then back to the right, parrying a sword.","",""
"begrudge","Verb","UNKNOWN","3410","3","Elbryan didn't really begrudge the man his excitement, though.","",""
"swath","Noun","UNKNOWN","3411","3","The beast had run off from the farmhouse, creating a swath of devastation through the brush, even knocking over small trees, venting a rage that the ranger had never before witnessed in an animal.","",""
"roaring","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3412","3","Out came the bear in full charge, roaring.","",""
"muzzle","Noun","UNKNOWN","3413","3","He waited a while to make sure that it would not stir, then moved to its muzzle, lifting its upper lip.","",""
"impression","Noun","UNKNOWN","3414","3","That impression did little to calm Elbryan's fears.","",""
"beer","Noun","UNKNOWN","3415","3","Three men lay about on piled skins, black bear mostly, drinking foamy beer from old mugs.","",""
"swordsman","Noun","UNKNOWN","3416","3","Avelyn, grasping at the opening, was quick to retrieve Tempest, but he was no swordsman.","",""
"brew","Verb","UNKNOWN","3417","3","What fool brewed such a magic as that?","",""
"pulling","Noun","UNKNOWN","3418","3","The first of the giants came into sight, bending low, pulling hard, a heavy harness strapped across its torso.","",""
"overbalanced","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3419","3","Now he launched his attack, dropping down to one knee, slapping his staff across to catch the inside of the overbalanced man's leg.","",""
"cauldron","Noun","UNKNOWN","3420","3","The ranger went around to the back and dumped out the cauldron of poison.","",""
"intent","Verb","UNKNOWN","3421","3","The first thing Jill noticed was a huge, fat man standing atop a table, waving an empty mug, sometimes in a threatening manner to keep at bay the closer patrons, all obviously intent on knocking him from his perch.","",""
"serving","Noun","UNKNOWN","3422","3","Jill ordered her troop to filter about, then went to see the man behind the serving bar.","",""
"shortage","Noun","UNKNOWN","3423","3","Has no shortage of money, I can assure you!","",""
"chain","Noun","UNKNOWN","3424","3","Elbryan tugged again and the chained balls slipped off the staff's end, freeing both weapons.","",""
"bowling","Noun","UNKNOWN","3425","3","The man ran every which way, bowling over all who would stand before him, laughing maniacally all the while, even when one of those dodging his charge landed a solid punch about his face or neck.","",""
"loin","Noun","UNKNOWN","3426","3","He wore only a loincloth and stood defensively, shoulders hunched, arms crossed to cover his belly and loins.","",""
"accustom","Verb","UNKNOWN","3427","3","And Maiyer Dek, among the largest of his giant kind, was not accustomed to being dwarfed.","",""
"emblem","Noun","UNKNOWN","3428","3","The three went back to the trap first, Paulson unceremoniously cutting the goblin down, then slicing off its ears and putting them in a pouch, pausing only to note that the creature was surprisingly well armed for one of its kind and that it wore an insignia on its leather jerkin, a black emblem of a batlike creature on a light gray background.","",""
"mill","Verb","UNKNOWN","3429","3","Across the wide meadow, past the flowers and the grass, he saw perfection of form, a huge stallion, milling about the shadows of the distant trees.","",""
"stolen","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3430","3","The only concern any in St.-Mere-Abelle's hierarchy held about the stolen stones was for the giant amethyst crystal, and that only because it was a stone whose magic they had not yet deciphered.","",""
"coldness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3431","3","Jojonah watched him go, shuddering at the sheer coldness of the man's aura.","",""
"difficulty","Noun","UNKNOWN","3432","3","He crossed with some difficulty, but had no trouble regaining the trail on the other side, for the rider was making no effort to conceal his tracks.","",""
"regain","Verb","UNKNOWN","3433","3","Over the next giant she went, trying to regain her footing.","",""
"ramble","Verb","UNKNOWN","3434","3","Elbryan merely smiled and let the centaur ramble on and on, considering the creature's words carefully so that he could discover many hints about Bradwarden.","",""
"brisk","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3435","3","By all reports, the weather was better on the northern side of the Gulf of Corona, more alive, with brisk winds and a greater change of the season.","",""
"drinking","Noun","UNKNOWN","3436","3","I know that yer drinking yer `potions o'","",""
"boil","Verb","UNKNOWN","3437","3","Frustration boiled in the young woman, mingling with desperation.","",""
"grapnel","Noun","UNKNOWN","3438","3","Jill first tried to dislodge the grapnel, but found that it was too tightly secured, with too much weight on the heavy line.","",""
"chip","Verb","UNKNOWN","3439","3","It was merely a diamond chip, useful for saving the candles and oil on long journeys.","",""
"swinging","Noun","UNKNOWN","3440","3","Elbryan grabbed up Tempest in both hands and surged ahead, swinging an.","",""
"protrude","Verb","UNKNOWN","3441","3","A long arrow protruded from its back, an arrow with fletchings familiar to the woman.","",""
"outdistance","Verb","UNKNOWN","3442","3","The powrie, apparently realizing that it could not possibly outdistance the long-legged human, skidded to a stop arid turned about, a gleaming, serrated sword in hand.","",""
"evade","Noun","UNKNOWN","3443","3","With a howl, it finally let go, scrambling about to evade the jabbing dagger.","",""
"struggling","Noun","UNKNOWN","3444","3","Jill started to climb into the boat, but had to stop and turn to strike again at the struggling powrie.","",""
"landmark","Noun","UNKNOWN","3445","3","She didn't recognize any landmarks but figured she must be somewhere west of Pireth Tulme on the north coast of the Mantis Arm.","",""
"straggler","Plural","UNKNOWN","3446","3","Jill found herself circumventing the town and approaching it from the west, not from the east the way any stragglers fleeing Pireth Tulme would.","",""
"avenge","Noun","UNKNOWN","3447","3","Few in Dundalis would have left even if they knew a goblin force was coming to avenge the goblin that had been killed by the hunting party.","",""
"dire","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3448","3","Before she entered, a familiar voice, raised in dire warning, assaulted her.","",""
"sift","Verb","UNKNOWN","3449","3","Elbryan absorbed all their words, sifted through their suggestions.","",""
"assistance","Noun","UNKNOWN","3450","3","But it was too late; he had pushed past the fear and into the realm of anger, and when the barkeep called for assistance, the man found no shortage of volunteers.","",""
"sourly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3451","3","Jill regarded him sourly, then rose and offered an arm.","",""
"rent","Verb","UNKNOWN","3452","3","Would Avelyn, who held the stones as most sacred, rent out their powers?","",""
"lamb","Noun","UNKNOWN","3453","3","Juicy lamb and thick cuts of venison buried in brown sauces and mushrooms, oranges that exploded in a shower of juice as soon as the integrity of their peels was breached, and large, round, yellow melons that the monk had never before seen but that were sweeter than anything he had ever tasted.","",""
"using","Noun","UNKNOWN","3454","3","Pony was quick to one, wrapping him in a heavy blanket, and Avelyn got to the other, using the serpentine effectively.","",""
"mirth","Noun","UNKNOWN","3455","3","They laughed again, all the louder, using the very sound of mirth as a shield against tears.","",""
"joined","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3456","3","They were joined and the monk fed as a vampire would feed.","",""
"mixed","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3457","3","It was with mixed feelings that Jill followed Brother Avelyn into Palmaris.","",""
"ensure","Verb","UNKNOWN","3458","3","Elbryan gathered up Paulson and Chipmunk and called to Juraviel, the four moving out from the gathering to ensure the goblins were not rallying for any counterattack.","",""
"snore","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3459","3","As if on cue, the snoozing monk rolled over and snored loudly.","",""
"detect","Infinitive","UNKNOWN","3460","3","Only two short days later, Brother Justice used his Dragon Sight stone to detect the use of strong magic, coming from the northeastern quarter of the city, the high ground of rich houses overlooking the Masur Delaval.","",""
"thereafter","Verb","UNKNOWN","3461","3","Pony awakened shortly thereafter, the dulled dawn just beginning, but still the glow from atop the mountain was faintly visible.","",""
"effectively","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3462","3","A blizzard could effectively shut the folk in their homes for a week straight.","",""
"breadth","Noun","UNKNOWN","3463","3","Its armies, led by Maiyer Dek and Kos-kosio Begulne were pressing fast for Palmaris, while Ubba Banrock's northern force had crossed the breadth of Alpinador, right to the coast, cutting the northern kingdom in half.","",""
"instantly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3464","3","The glow went away instantly, but the arm remained, extended.","",""
"din","Verb","UNKNOWN","3465","3","""But not until we have dined,"" Dosey said, falling back in his chair.","",""
"captive","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3466","3","Elbryan looked down to his diminutive captive.","",""
"plausible","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3467","3","But Brother Justice needed the merchant, as well, or at least it seemed plausible that the man might aid the monk in his all-important quest.","",""
"wry","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3468","3","Elbryan turned a wry gaze on the centaur.","",""
"appreciated","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3469","3","The huge man had never appreciated Belster's relationship with the strange Nightbird and had said so often and loudly.","",""
"converse","Noun","UNKNOWN","3470","3","Yes, Elbryan would like to converse with Pony, to see her again, to remember that innocent time when patrolling was play and nightmares were not real.","",""
"herd","Noun","UNKNOWN","3471","3","Who might this leader of the herd be to inspire such uncharacteristic respect from cocky Bradwarden?","",""
"unerringly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3472","3","The monk fell back, nearly toppling, as the stone suddenly zipped away, flying unerringly for the armored chest of the giant closest behind Bradwarden.","",""
"tutor","Noun","UNKNOWN","3473","3","Over the next couple of weeks, as they marched along the trails, Avelyn showed Jill just how much he had come to trust her, for he began formally tutoring her in the ways of the stones.","",""
"evergreens","Verb","UNKNOWN","3474","3","Elkenbrook was a village not unlike Dundalis or Weedy Meadow, except that, being on the western border of Alpinador, it was a colder place, with more hardy evergreens and fewer deciduous trees.","",""
"whinny","Verb","UNKNOWN","3475","3","The stallion pawed the ground, then reared and whinnied.","",""
"muscled","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3476","3","Symphony had gone perfectly still, his head raised high, his magnificent, muscled chest presented openly to the two men.","",""
"sorely","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3477","3","It was risky setting a light in the dark forest, but these folk sorely needed the warmth.","",""
"access","Verb","UNKNOWN","3478","3","That joining by means of the hematite when he had been sorely wounded had given her an understanding of accessing the powers on a level that other monks spent months, even years, trying to attain.","",""
"secretive","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3479","3","Not only was her gain exponential, but so was the monk's understanding of this secretive woman - and of her dark past.","",""
"urgent","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3480","3","The kiss became more urgent, and gradually Pony's fears melted away, swept up in the sudden torrent of passion that overcame her.","",""
"feign","Infinitive","UNKNOWN","3481","3","It is evident in every stride you take, in every smile you feign= yea, feign, I say, for have you really smiled, Jill?","",""
"reclusive","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3482","3","It is likely that most of the giants, normally reclusive beasts, will turn back for their mountain homes, far from the villages of humans.","",""
"resonate","Verb","UNKNOWN","3483","3","Jill's deep breath resonated like a growl and she turned, pulling free of the monk, staring hard at the tavern, at its stone foundation.","",""
"barricade","Noun","UNKNOWN","3484","3","Normally the goblins would have come in as a mob, a rushing horde, barreling past the trees and scrub, throwing themselves wildly against the pickets and barricades.","",""
"maraud","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3485","3","Often marauding goblins would send in a messenger before the attack to ask for surrender, to barter for a bribe, warning that battle would otherwise be joined.","",""
"nook","Noun","UNKNOWN","3486","3","More images came rushing to her as soon as she sat in the nook of those pines.","",""
"glancing","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3487","3","A deft twist by the woman turned the sword out of harm's way, allowing Brother Justice merely a glancing hit that forced Jill back a step.","",""
"bounty","Noun","UNKNOWN","3488","3","It was more than any bounty, the ranger knew.","",""
"rowdy","Noun","UNKNOWN","3489","3","The dwarf was telling some rowdy story, the two goblins laughing riotously at every grotesque detail.","",""
"contort","Verb","UNKNOWN","3490","3","Tol bowed his head, his face contorting as he struggled, pragmatism against conscience.","",""
"brawl","Noun","UNKNOWN","3491","3","The ranger elbowed through the brawl, blocking punches whenever necessary, felling with three shortened blows yet another villager who tried to pounce upon him.","",""
"hammer","Verb","UNKNOWN","3492","3","The ranger smiled once more as Tol Yuganick attacked again, only to be hammered away.","",""
"substance","Noun","UNKNOWN","3493","3","This man had been-poisoned, no doubt about it, but the poison was not based in any substance, in any herb or plant or any animal venom.","",""
"northwest","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3494","3","Diagonally, across the field to the northwest, moving through the stark lines of thinner trees, came three forms, obviously goblin scouts.","",""
"thief","Noun","UNKNOWN","3495","3","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.","",""
"adversary","Noun","UNKNOWN","3496","3","Hardly thinking of the motion, knowing only that he could not lose this advantage against so deadly an adversary, Elbryan popped the feathered tip onto his Weapon and bent it low, quickly setting the bowstring.","",""
"outcropping","Noun","UNKNOWN","3497","3","Elbryan scrambled to get to the spot, saw the monk land heavily atop one rocky outcropping and then tumble right over it, a fifteen-foot plummet to bard stone.","",""
"tempt","Verb","UNKNOWN","3498","3","Elbryan, too, was tempted, would have loved to see Andur'Blough Inninness again, especially now, to bolster his resolve before he completed this all-important, perilous journey.","",""
"moonlit","Noun","UNKNOWN","3499","3","Then he set off, riding hard through the moonlit woods.","",""
"graze","Verb","UNKNOWN","3500","3","They went off together into the night, finding Symphony in a moonlit field, grazing calmly.","",""
"barehanded","PastTense","UNKNOWN","3401","2","For the first year, they would study barehanded techniques, punching and grappling.","",""
"superiority","Noun","UNKNOWN","3402","2","He could not beat Avelyn at the Ring Stone studies, but he gained a measure of superiority during the day.","",""
"serpent","Noun","UNKNOWN","3403","2","In most of the maneuvers, the monks were supposed to pull their punches, but Quintall often blasted the breath from Avelyn; there was no striking above the shoulders allowed, but more than once, Quintall knifed a ""serpent hand"" across Avelyn's throat, dropping him to his knees, gasping for breath.","",""
"eliminate","Verb","B2","3404","2","The slips had become too common; Avelyn honestly believed Quintall meant to eliminate the competition.","",""
"goose","Noun","UNKNOWN","3405","2","Quintall's grin was certainly as far from Godlike as anything Avelyn had ever seen, and the fact that their training with weapons, where wounds could easily become more severe, was not far away, brought goose bumps to the scholarly young man.","",""
"removed","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3406","2","Perhaps this training was not so far removed from the nighttime training, which Avelyn considered more important.","",""
"cocky","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3407","2","Who might this leader of the herd be to inspire such uncharacteristic respect from cocky Bradwarden?","",""
"twinkle","Noun","UNKNOWN","3408","2","Soon the sky was clear above him, the first stars twinkling into view.","",""
"awe","Noun","UNKNOWN","3409","2","Half an hour passed uneventfully, Elbryan walking and looking about, constantly awed by the beauty and the.","",""
"ascension","Noun","UNKNOWN","3410","2","There were in the abbey no more than four other monks, three of them masters and one Father Abbot Markwart himself, who could so distinguish magical intensity, and that fact had been the determining factor in Dalebert Markwart's ascension to the highest rank, for his chief rival could not determine magical intensity in individual stones.","",""
"dreary","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3411","2","He set out from the abbey one dark and dreary morning, riding an ash-gray mare, not swift of hoof but long in heart.","",""
"staircase","Noun","UNKNOWN","3412","2","""Finished already?"" Grady called as he descended the wide, sweeping staircase of House Battlebrow, the most renowned brothel in all of Palmaris.","",""
"eavesdrop","Noun","UNKNOWN","3413","2","Avelyn tried hard not to eavesdrop, but he did catch snatches of the conversation, mostly Siherton complaining vigorously that this was against strict procedure.","",""
"unintentionally","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3414","2","She dropped the sword - unintentionally, Elbryan knew, for it fell harmlessly to the side - so the young man graciously pulled the pole out straight so Tuntun wouldn't fall off balance to either side.","",""
"upraise","Verb","UNKNOWN","3415","2","Finally, Father Abbot Markwart halted the conversation with an upraised hand.","",""
"awestruck","Verb","UNKNOWN","3416","2","From the trees behind Elbryan, Pony and Avelyn watched awestruck.","",""
"chrysotile","Noun","UNKNOWN","3417","2","He held out his left hand and opened it to show Avelyn three stones: malachite, ringed with various shades of green; shining, polished amber; and a silvery piece of chrysotile, the largest of the three resembling a sheet of straight bars, long and narrow lying side by side.","",""
"disparate","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3418","2","Avelyn considered the sight from two widely disparate viewpoints.","",""
"thrum","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3419","2","The ruby was thrumming in his hand, its magic intense and straining for release.","",""
"heartfelt","Noun","UNKNOWN","3420","2","Father Abbot Markwart burst out into the most heartfelt laughter Avelyn had ever heard.","",""
"ridgeline","Noun","UNKNOWN","3421","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 ...","",""
"internal","Adjective","B2","3422","2","He swung about, some score of yards from the tavern entrance, and launched into a diatribe on the coming dark days, about a world unprepared to face the forces of evil, about a darkness being fed by the internal rot of the land.","",""
"buffet","Verb","UNKNOWN","3423","2","At the same moment that the air grew clear about him, strong winds buffeted him - not gusts but a continual blow.","",""
"unmoving","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3424","2","Elbryan looked down the slope curiously, just the few feet to the unmoving mist.","",""
"chime","Verb","UNKNOWN","3425","2","Somehow he knew the speaker was not human, that no human voice could chime so sweetly, so perfectly.","",""
"plainly","Adverb","B2","3426","2","The way the words were spoken, however plainly and without any apparent deception allowed Elbryan to relax somewhat.","",""
"deception","Singular","UNKNOWN","3427","2","The way the words were spoken, however plainly and without any apparent deception allowed Elbryan to relax somewhat.","",""
"shimmer","Noun","B2","3428","2","It was as if the being shone of its own accord, an inner light making the flowing hair glow and shimmer.","",""
"equip","Verb","B2","3429","2","Thus was Brother Justice equipped to find and destroy Avelyn.","",""
"croak","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3430","2","Elbryan knew that, could hear it in the shriek of every bird, in the movements of squirrels, agitated by the presence of such numbers, by the thunder of a giant's step or the rolling war machines, by the croaks of powrie generals, the eager whines of bloodthirsty goblins.","",""
"shallow","Adjective","B2","3431","2","The creature wasn't following a trail, Elbryan believed, but was making one, walking as easily and openly through the underbrush as a man might wade through a shallow pond.","",""
"arrogance","Noun","UNKNOWN","3432","2","Elbryan realized the arrogance of that notion, an almost sinful pride,.","",""
"exaggerated","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3433","2","Might be the animals, might be the plants."" Bradwarden stopped and offered an exaggerated wink that Elbryan, still a fair distance down the hill, saw clearly.","",""
"peril","Noun","UNKNOWN","3434","2","The journey was too treacherous, and if the crew had been well paid, as promised, they would have had no reason to dare the perils of the South Mirianic again.","",""
"bloodline","Noun","UNKNOWN","3435","2","But after speaking with the boy, Juraviel was even more convinced that this was indeed the true bloodline of Mather, and an appropriate ranger-in-training.","",""
"going","Noun","UNKNOWN","3436","2","Elbryan had stopped at the top of the hillock, but he felt as if he were still going up, still ascending to those brilliant, twinkling dots.","",""
"ascend","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3437","2","Elbryan had stopped at the top of the hillock, but he felt as if he were still going up, still ascending to those brilliant, twinkling dots.","",""
"unanswered","Verb","UNKNOWN","3438","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.","",""
"temporary","Adjective","B2","3439","2","I had ascended from this temporary existence, from a place of constant change to a place of eternity.","",""
"breech","Noun","UNKNOWN","3440","2","Elbryan rolled his breeches up over his knees - not that the worn and ragged pants would stay that way for long!","",""
"reckon","Verb","B2","3441","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.","",""
"reed","Noun","UNKNOWN","3442","2","Parting one patch of reeds, the boy found his first stone of the day, bobbing low in the water.","",""
"flavored","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3443","2","When he squeezed them, extracting the now-flavored liquid, the elves would inevitably complain about how little he had collected.","",""
"sticky","Adjective","B2","3444","2","those silken elven strands, which, Elbryan found out soon enough, could be made as sticky and clingy as a spiderweb.","",""
"loaded","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3445","2","He got his reward for his morning's toils when he returned to the bog to collect the tenth loaded basket.","",""
"circuitous","Adjective","B2","3446","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.","",""
"trellis","Noun","UNKNOWN","3447","2","- and had cleverly covered it with a layer of dirt and fallen leaves, supported by a trellis of woven sticks.","",""
"woven","Noun","UNKNOWN","3448","2","Into the spike, the beast sent its vision, the telltale tracings of human-woven magic.","",""
"phony","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3449","2","He would have leaped clear of the phony, only to drop heavily into the real one.","",""
"fletchings","Noun","UNKNOWN","3450","2","A long arrow protruded from its back, an arrow with fletchings familiar to the woman.","",""
"clothe","Verb","UNKNOWN","3451","2","Not a sound came from about the beast as, clothing and all, the dactyl devoured the torn skin of Gothra.","",""
"cowards","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3452","2","Are you cowards, then?","",""
"miserably","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3453","2","Surely Tuntun would have to come to him, if for no other reason than to tell him how miserably he had failed in protecting the three towns!","",""
"veritable","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3454","2","He wheeled, but Tuntun turned with him, staying behind him and punching out a veritable drum roll on his upper back.","",""
"porous","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3455","2","His spirit walked free of his body, passed through the porous wood of the door and past the pair of oblivious guards.","",""
"bard","Noun","UNKNOWN","3456","2","Elbryan scrambled to get to the spot, saw the monk land heavily atop one rocky outcropping and then tumble right over it, a fifteen-foot plummet to bard stone.","",""
"defiance","Noun","UNKNOWN","3457","2","The monk snarled in defiance and kicked at the heavy door.","",""
"finality","Noun","UNKNOWN","3458","2","of holding it over the trough, hurled it into the brush nearby, an act of defiance and of finality.","",""
"angling","Noun","B2","3459","2","Juraviel took full advantage, put Elbryan off balance and kept on twisting, angling the boy over the trough.","",""
"illogic","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3460","2","Elbryan's thoughts shifted to the illogic of it all.","",""
"inhuman","Noun","UNKNOWN","3461","2","Jojonah closed his eyes and remembered all the times Siherton had warned him about Avelyn's almost inhuman dedication.","",""
"astounding","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3462","2","Juraviel, lighter and smaller, had put him down with astounding ease, a simple movement for which Elbryan had no counter.","",""
"gangly","Adverb","B2","3463","2","As the weeks became months, and they became a year, and then two, Elbryan was hardly recognizable as the short gangly boy that Jilseponie had once beat up.","",""
"proprietor","Noun","UNKNOWN","3464","2","of the tavern's proprietor, a jolly-looking man, and without a word - I suppose that was the moment the folk of the village began to suspect that l was a bit unusual - headed back the way I had come.","",""
"reputedly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3465","2","Palmaris was second in size in all the Kingdom of Honce-the-Bear only to Ursal, the throne seat, further upriver, though neither were reputedly as populous as the great, crowded cities of the southern kingdom of Behren.","",""
"commonly","Adverb","B2","3466","2","The attack was fairly strongthough he would have expected more from powerful Brother Avelyn - but the sunstone was among the most potent of all the stones of St.-Mere-Abelle, its defenses even more complete than the chrysoberyl more commonly used, and its power was more tightly focused than any other, a simple shield against magic.","",""
"ample","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3467","2","They were about the same height, but Tol, with his barrel-like torso and ample belly, was heavier.","",""
"suitor","Noun","UNKNOWN","3468","2","And it was all done in such good fun that neither Graevis nor any suitor of her unsuspecting dance partner ever seemed to care.","",""
"unrivaled","Verb","UNKNOWN","3469","2","Pettibwa just had an unrivaled love of life and of other people.","",""
"accent","Noun","B2","3470","2","Elbryan couldn't make out every word; the goblins were using the language spoken by the common folk of Corona, but the creatures' accents were so thick, their slang so heavy, that the ranger could only get a general impression of their conversation.","",""
"sarcasm","Noun","UNKNOWN","3471","2","Connor glared at him, hardly appreciating the sarcasm.","",""
"meek","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3472","2","She offered a meek smile and a nod to Pettibwa, who returned them with a wink.","",""
"savior","Noun","UNKNOWN","3473","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.","",""
"barmaid","Noun","UNKNOWN","3474","2","Suddenly he was off balance, and then he was sitting on the floor, the pretty barmaid gliding out of reach.","",""
"precisely","Adverb","B2","3475","2","their goal through honor, Cat knew; was precisely the same as the drunk had attempted through offered gold.","",""
"graciously","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3476","2","She worked for another hour, and when her smile did not return, Graevis graciously bade her to take an early night.","",""
"toast","Noun","UNKNOWN","3477","2","Cat looked back appreciatively, and over Pettibwa's large round shoulder, she saw again the handsome well-dressed young man, watching her go, lifting his glass of wine in apparent toast to her.","",""
"solitude","Noun","UNKNOWN","3478","2","Her rage bubbled away, and she turned from the alley, walking back into the solitude of the darkened rooftop.","",""
"inheritance","Noun","UNKNOWN","3479","2","Stiff even, and as the young woman had grown wiser to the ways of the world, she came to understand that Grady saw her as a threat to what he considered his rightful inheritance.","",""
"apron","Noun","UNKNOWN","3480","2","Sometime later, Pettibwa came out of the inn, rubbing her hands on her apron, wiping the sweat from her brow, smiling, always smiling, as she went about the business of her life.","",""
"brine","Noun","UNKNOWN","3481","2","Even now, after nearly four years in Palmaris, when she knew every street, where to go, where to avoid, and when the dark image of the great Masur Delaval and the smell of brine and the wind filled with crisp wetness had become very familiar to her, she could not consider the place her home.","",""
"affectionately","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3482","2","It had been given to her affectionately, she knew, and with all sympathy for her pitiful predicament, and so she had not argued.","",""
"soot","Noun","UNKNOWN","3483","2","There lay Avelyn, motionless and soot covered.","",""
"tag","Verb","B2","3484","2","Then came the long journey, tagging along with a merchant caravan that had swapped crafted items to the people of the small frontier village in exchange for pelts and great trees that would be used as masts for the sailing ships built in Palmaris.","",""
"phenomenon","Noun","B2","3485","2","Perhaps, but Juraviel knew, too, that such events might accompany a larger and darker phenomenon, that earthquakes that could tear the earth as here, that goblin raids upon villages, like the one that had orphaned Elbryan not five years before, might signal something evil indeed.","",""
"metallic","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3486","2","She considered going back into the Way and inquiring about this Halo right then, but her concentration was broken by a sharp, metallic sound.","",""
"namesake","Noun","UNKNOWN","3487","2","Quick as her namesake, the young woman leaped across and put her knee heavily into the drunk's chest, knocking him flat to the roof.","",""
"nibble","Verb","UNKNOWN","3488","2","But the young monk could not pull his mind far from the horrors he had witnessed, the encroaching evil that nibbled at the very heart of all that young Avelyn Desbris had held dear.","",""
"squirming","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3489","2","He pushed down hard to secure the squirming youngster and swung about, Hawkwing in his free hand, ready to fend off an attack.","",""
"ashamed","PastTense","B2","3490","2","And she was not ashamed, not embarrassed, and no black wings of horrors past swept up about her.","",""
"bosom","Noun","UNKNOWN","3491","2","The woman desperately wanted to seek out Graevis and Pettibwa, to tell them she was all right, to hug them and fall comfortably onto Pettibwa's soft bosom.","",""
"ingrained","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3492","2","It seemed that as every ceremony became ingrained within him, it lost a bit of its mystery, and thus, its holiness.","",""
"considered","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3493","2","Even the children of the Alpinadoran frontier - and most of the still - wild kingdom was considered frontier!","",""
"mediator","Noun","UNKNOWN","3494","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.","",""
"watery","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3495","2","But for all the harsh reality, for all the possibilities that he would not survive, Avelyn watched the watery horizon for hint of those square sails most intently of all.","",""
"pinnacle","Noun","UNKNOWN","3496","2","To his thinking, this was the pinnacle of his existence, the greatest joy that a monk of St.-Mere-Abelle might know, the closest, before death, that he could ever get to his God.","",""
"mustache","Noun","UNKNOWN","3497","2","By all appearances, the man was impressive - tall and straight, mustache and goatee neatly trimmed, his red-trimmed blue overcoat tailored straight and proper, black leather baldric crossing right shoulder to left hip and sporting an impressive sword, a family heirloom.","",""
"ornamental","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3498","2","That garment held Avelyn's attention acutely, for he sensed that at least one of those jewels, a small ruby, was more than ornamental.","",""
"trimmed","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3499","2","He was dirty and gray, his hair cropped short and badly trimmed, and his beard untended.","",""
"untended","PastTense","UNKNOWN","3500","2","Except for that hardened face with its wild, untended beard, this man could have passed as a brother of Tol Yuganick, Elbryan noted distastefully.","",""
1 lemma pos cefr_level coverage_rank global_frequency context_sentence context_sentence_zh definition_zh
2 smoothness barehanded Noun PastTense UNKNOWN 3401 3 2 He was amazed by its balance, by the smoothness of its long and comfortable draw. For the first year, they would study barehanded techniques, punching and grappling.
3 tied superiority Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3402 3 2 A quick tug showed Elbryan that it was tied off a short distance up the ledge. He could not beat Avelyn at the Ring Stone studies, but he gained a measure of superiority during the day.
4 don serpent Gerund Noun UNKNOWN 3403 3 2 With a trusting nod, the woman donned the mask, as did Elbryan, the ranger eyeing Pony all the while, admiring her gumption. In most of the maneuvers, the monks were supposed to pull their punches, but Quintall often blasted the breath from Avelyn; there was no striking above the shoulders allowed, but more than once, Quintall knifed a "serpent hand" across Avelyn's throat, dropping him to his knees, gasping for breath.
5 traveling eliminate Noun Verb UNKNOWN B2 3404 3 2 Brother Justice had heard many descriptions of the woman traveling beside the mad friar, and as he looked upon this woman now, upon her lips, so thick and full, her stunning blue eyes, and that thick mane of golden hair, he knew. The slips had become too common; Avelyn honestly believed Quintall meant to eliminate the competition.
6 sparse goose Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3405 3 2 The land was relatively flat and brown, with sparse low shrubs poking here and there. Quintall's grin was certainly as far from Godlike as anything Avelyn had ever seen, and the fact that their training with weapons, where wounds could easily become more severe, was not far away, brought goose bumps to the scholarly young man.
7 inspection removed Singular Adjective UNKNOWN 3406 3 2 Elbryan continued his inspection of the stream to make sure that nothing ominous was swimming along its course, then hooked his pack on the stiff branch of a prickly shrub and gingerly removed his boots. Perhaps this training was not so far removed from the nighttime training, which Avelyn considered more important.
8 territory cocky Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3407 3 2 However, Elbryan was not in any human settlement, not in any land claimed by his kind, and quite possibly was within the boundaries of goblin territory. Who might this leader of the herd be to inspire such uncharacteristic respect from cocky Bradwarden?
9 justify twinkle Verb Noun B2 UNKNOWN 3408 3 2 If that was the case, would he be justified in waging battle with these six? Soon the sky was clear above him, the first stars twinkling into view.
10 knocking awe Noun UNKNOWN 3409 3 2 Elbryan swept his staff out to the left, knocking aside a club strike, then back to the right, parrying a sword. Half an hour passed uneventfully, Elbryan walking and looking about, constantly awed by the beauty and the.
11 begrudge ascension Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3410 3 2 Elbryan didn't really begrudge the man his excitement, though. There were in the abbey no more than four other monks, three of them masters and one Father Abbot Markwart himself, who could so distinguish magical intensity, and that fact had been the determining factor in Dalebert Markwart's ascension to the highest rank, for his chief rival could not determine magical intensity in individual stones.
12 swath dreary Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3411 3 2 The beast had run off from the farmhouse, creating a swath of devastation through the brush, even knocking over small trees, venting a rage that the ranger had never before witnessed in an animal. He set out from the abbey one dark and dreary morning, riding an ash-gray mare, not swift of hoof but long in heart.
13 roaring staircase Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3412 3 2 Out came the bear in full charge, roaring. "Finished already?" Grady called as he descended the wide, sweeping staircase of House Battlebrow, the most renowned brothel in all of Palmaris.
14 muzzle eavesdrop Noun UNKNOWN 3413 3 2 He waited a while to make sure that it would not stir, then moved to its muzzle, lifting its upper lip. Avelyn tried hard not to eavesdrop, but he did catch snatches of the conversation, mostly Siherton complaining vigorously that this was against strict procedure.
15 impression unintentionally Noun Adverb UNKNOWN 3414 3 2 That impression did little to calm Elbryan's fears. She dropped the sword - unintentionally, Elbryan knew, for it fell harmlessly to the side - so the young man graciously pulled the pole out straight so Tuntun wouldn't fall off balance to either side.
16 beer upraise Noun Verb UNKNOWN 3415 3 2 Three men lay about on piled skins, black bear mostly, drinking foamy beer from old mugs. Finally, Father Abbot Markwart halted the conversation with an upraised hand.
17 swordsman awestruck Noun Verb UNKNOWN 3416 3 2 Avelyn, grasping at the opening, was quick to retrieve Tempest, but he was no swordsman. From the trees behind Elbryan, Pony and Avelyn watched awestruck.
18 brew chrysotile Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3417 3 2 What fool brewed such a magic as that? He held out his left hand and opened it to show Avelyn three stones: malachite, ringed with various shades of green; shining, polished amber; and a silvery piece of chrysotile, the largest of the three resembling a sheet of straight bars, long and narrow lying side by side.
19 pulling disparate Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3418 3 2 The first of the giants came into sight, bending low, pulling hard, a heavy harness strapped across its torso. Avelyn considered the sight from two widely disparate viewpoints.
20 overbalanced thrum Adjective Gerund UNKNOWN 3419 3 2 Now he launched his attack, dropping down to one knee, slapping his staff across to catch the inside of the overbalanced man's leg. The ruby was thrumming in his hand, its magic intense and straining for release.
21 cauldron heartfelt Noun UNKNOWN 3420 3 2 The ranger went around to the back and dumped out the cauldron of poison. Father Abbot Markwart burst out into the most heartfelt laughter Avelyn had ever heard.
22 intent ridgeline Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3421 3 2 The first thing Jill noticed was a huge, fat man standing atop a table, waving an empty mug, sometimes in a threatening manner to keep at bay the closer patrons, all obviously intent on knocking him from his perch. 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 ...
23 serving internal Noun Adjective UNKNOWN B2 3422 3 2 Jill ordered her troop to filter about, then went to see the man behind the serving bar. He swung about, some score of yards from the tavern entrance, and launched into a diatribe on the coming dark days, about a world unprepared to face the forces of evil, about a darkness being fed by the internal rot of the land.
24 shortage buffet Noun Verb UNKNOWN 3423 3 2 Has no shortage of money, I can assure you! At the same moment that the air grew clear about him, strong winds buffeted him - not gusts but a continual blow.
25 chain unmoving Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3424 3 2 Elbryan tugged again and the chained balls slipped off the staff's end, freeing both weapons. Elbryan looked down the slope curiously, just the few feet to the unmoving mist.
26 bowling chime Noun Verb UNKNOWN 3425 3 2 The man ran every which way, bowling over all who would stand before him, laughing maniacally all the while, even when one of those dodging his charge landed a solid punch about his face or neck. Somehow he knew the speaker was not human, that no human voice could chime so sweetly, so perfectly.
27 loin plainly Noun Adverb UNKNOWN B2 3426 3 2 He wore only a loincloth and stood defensively, shoulders hunched, arms crossed to cover his belly and loins. The way the words were spoken, however plainly and without any apparent deception allowed Elbryan to relax somewhat.
28 accustom deception Verb Singular UNKNOWN 3427 3 2 And Maiyer Dek, among the largest of his giant kind, was not accustomed to being dwarfed. The way the words were spoken, however plainly and without any apparent deception allowed Elbryan to relax somewhat.
29 emblem shimmer Noun UNKNOWN B2 3428 3 2 The three went back to the trap first, Paulson unceremoniously cutting the goblin down, then slicing off its ears and putting them in a pouch, pausing only to note that the creature was surprisingly well armed for one of its kind and that it wore an insignia on its leather jerkin, a black emblem of a batlike creature on a light gray background. It was as if the being shone of its own accord, an inner light making the flowing hair glow and shimmer.
30 mill equip Verb UNKNOWN B2 3429 3 2 Across the wide meadow, past the flowers and the grass, he saw perfection of form, a huge stallion, milling about the shadows of the distant trees. Thus was Brother Justice equipped to find and destroy Avelyn.
31 stolen croak Adjective Gerund UNKNOWN 3430 3 2 The only concern any in St.-Mere-Abelle's hierarchy held about the stolen stones was for the giant amethyst crystal, and that only because it was a stone whose magic they had not yet deciphered. Elbryan knew that, could hear it in the shriek of every bird, in the movements of squirrels, agitated by the presence of such numbers, by the thunder of a giant's step or the rolling war machines, by the croaks of powrie generals, the eager whines of bloodthirsty goblins.
32 coldness shallow Noun Adjective UNKNOWN B2 3431 3 2 Jojonah watched him go, shuddering at the sheer coldness of the man's aura. The creature wasn't following a trail, Elbryan believed, but was making one, walking as easily and openly through the underbrush as a man might wade through a shallow pond.
33 difficulty arrogance Noun UNKNOWN 3432 3 2 He crossed with some difficulty, but had no trouble regaining the trail on the other side, for the rider was making no effort to conceal his tracks. Elbryan realized the arrogance of that notion, an almost sinful pride,.
34 regain exaggerated Verb Adjective UNKNOWN 3433 3 2 Over the next giant she went, trying to regain her footing. Might be the animals, might be the plants." Bradwarden stopped and offered an exaggerated wink that Elbryan, still a fair distance down the hill, saw clearly.
35 ramble peril Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3434 3 2 Elbryan merely smiled and let the centaur ramble on and on, considering the creature's words carefully so that he could discover many hints about Bradwarden. The journey was too treacherous, and if the crew had been well paid, as promised, they would have had no reason to dare the perils of the South Mirianic again.
36 brisk bloodline Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3435 3 2 By all reports, the weather was better on the northern side of the Gulf of Corona, more alive, with brisk winds and a greater change of the season. But after speaking with the boy, Juraviel was even more convinced that this was indeed the true bloodline of Mather, and an appropriate ranger-in-training.
37 drinking going Noun UNKNOWN 3436 3 2 I know that yer drinking yer `potions o' Elbryan had stopped at the top of the hillock, but he felt as if he were still going up, still ascending to those brilliant, twinkling dots.
38 boil ascend Verb Gerund UNKNOWN 3437 3 2 Frustration boiled in the young woman, mingling with desperation. Elbryan had stopped at the top of the hillock, but he felt as if he were still going up, still ascending to those brilliant, twinkling dots.
39 grapnel unanswered Noun Verb UNKNOWN 3438 3 2 Jill first tried to dislodge the grapnel, but found that it was too tightly secured, with too much weight on the heavy line. 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.
40 chip temporary Verb Adjective UNKNOWN B2 3439 3 2 It was merely a diamond chip, useful for saving the candles and oil on long journeys. I had ascended from this temporary existence, from a place of constant change to a place of eternity.
41 swinging breech Noun UNKNOWN 3440 3 2 Elbryan grabbed up Tempest in both hands and surged ahead, swinging an. Elbryan rolled his breeches up over his knees - not that the worn and ragged pants would stay that way for long!
42 protrude reckon Verb UNKNOWN B2 3441 3 2 A long arrow protruded from its back, an arrow with fletchings familiar to the woman. 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.
43 outdistance reed Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3442 3 2 The powrie, apparently realizing that it could not possibly outdistance the long-legged human, skidded to a stop arid turned about, a gleaming, serrated sword in hand. Parting one patch of reeds, the boy found his first stone of the day, bobbing low in the water.
44 evade flavored Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3443 3 2 With a howl, it finally let go, scrambling about to evade the jabbing dagger. When he squeezed them, extracting the now-flavored liquid, the elves would inevitably complain about how little he had collected.
45 struggling sticky Noun Adjective UNKNOWN B2 3444 3 2 Jill started to climb into the boat, but had to stop and turn to strike again at the struggling powrie. those silken elven strands, which, Elbryan found out soon enough, could be made as sticky and clingy as a spiderweb.
46 landmark loaded Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3445 3 2 She didn't recognize any landmarks but figured she must be somewhere west of Pireth Tulme on the north coast of the Mantis Arm. He got his reward for his morning's toils when he returned to the bog to collect the tenth loaded basket.
47 straggler circuitous Plural Adjective UNKNOWN B2 3446 3 2 Jill found herself circumventing the town and approaching it from the west, not from the east the way any stragglers fleeing Pireth Tulme would. 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.
48 avenge trellis Noun UNKNOWN 3447 3 2 Few in Dundalis would have left even if they knew a goblin force was coming to avenge the goblin that had been killed by the hunting party. - and had cleverly covered it with a layer of dirt and fallen leaves, supported by a trellis of woven sticks.
49 dire woven Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3448 3 2 Before she entered, a familiar voice, raised in dire warning, assaulted her. Into the spike, the beast sent its vision, the telltale tracings of human-woven magic.
50 sift phony Verb Adjective UNKNOWN 3449 3 2 Elbryan absorbed all their words, sifted through their suggestions. He would have leaped clear of the phony, only to drop heavily into the real one.
51 assistance fletchings Noun UNKNOWN 3450 3 2 But it was too late; he had pushed past the fear and into the realm of anger, and when the barkeep called for assistance, the man found no shortage of volunteers. A long arrow protruded from its back, an arrow with fletchings familiar to the woman.
52 sourly clothe Adverb Verb UNKNOWN 3451 3 2 Jill regarded him sourly, then rose and offered an arm. Not a sound came from about the beast as, clothing and all, the dactyl devoured the torn skin of Gothra.
53 rent cowards Verb Adverb UNKNOWN 3452 3 2 Would Avelyn, who held the stones as most sacred, rent out their powers? Are you cowards, then?
54 lamb miserably Noun Adverb UNKNOWN 3453 3 2 Juicy lamb and thick cuts of venison buried in brown sauces and mushrooms, oranges that exploded in a shower of juice as soon as the integrity of their peels was breached, and large, round, yellow melons that the monk had never before seen but that were sweeter than anything he had ever tasted. Surely Tuntun would have to come to him, if for no other reason than to tell him how miserably he had failed in protecting the three towns!
55 using veritable Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3454 3 2 Pony was quick to one, wrapping him in a heavy blanket, and Avelyn got to the other, using the serpentine effectively. He wheeled, but Tuntun turned with him, staying behind him and punching out a veritable drum roll on his upper back.
56 mirth porous Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3455 3 2 They laughed again, all the louder, using the very sound of mirth as a shield against tears. His spirit walked free of his body, passed through the porous wood of the door and past the pair of oblivious guards.
57 joined bard Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3456 3 2 They were joined and the monk fed as a vampire would feed. Elbryan scrambled to get to the spot, saw the monk land heavily atop one rocky outcropping and then tumble right over it, a fifteen-foot plummet to bard stone.
58 mixed defiance Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3457 3 2 It was with mixed feelings that Jill followed Brother Avelyn into Palmaris. The monk snarled in defiance and kicked at the heavy door.
59 ensure finality Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3458 3 2 Elbryan gathered up Paulson and Chipmunk and called to Juraviel, the four moving out from the gathering to ensure the goblins were not rallying for any counterattack. of holding it over the trough, hurled it into the brush nearby, an act of defiance and of finality.
60 snore angling Gerund Noun UNKNOWN B2 3459 3 2 As if on cue, the snoozing monk rolled over and snored loudly. Juraviel took full advantage, put Elbryan off balance and kept on twisting, angling the boy over the trough.
61 detect illogic Infinitive Adjective UNKNOWN 3460 3 2 Only two short days later, Brother Justice used his Dragon Sight stone to detect the use of strong magic, coming from the northeastern quarter of the city, the high ground of rich houses overlooking the Masur Delaval. Elbryan's thoughts shifted to the illogic of it all.
62 thereafter inhuman Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3461 3 2 Pony awakened shortly thereafter, the dulled dawn just beginning, but still the glow from atop the mountain was faintly visible. Jojonah closed his eyes and remembered all the times Siherton had warned him about Avelyn's almost inhuman dedication.
63 effectively astounding Adverb Adjective UNKNOWN 3462 3 2 A blizzard could effectively shut the folk in their homes for a week straight. Juraviel, lighter and smaller, had put him down with astounding ease, a simple movement for which Elbryan had no counter.
64 breadth gangly Noun Adverb UNKNOWN B2 3463 3 2 Its armies, led by Maiyer Dek and Kos-kosio Begulne were pressing fast for Palmaris, while Ubba Banrock's northern force had crossed the breadth of Alpinador, right to the coast, cutting the northern kingdom in half. As the weeks became months, and they became a year, and then two, Elbryan was hardly recognizable as the short gangly boy that Jilseponie had once beat up.
65 instantly proprietor Adverb Noun UNKNOWN 3464 3 2 The glow went away instantly, but the arm remained, extended. of the tavern's proprietor, a jolly-looking man, and without a word - I suppose that was the moment the folk of the village began to suspect that l was a bit unusual - headed back the way I had come.
66 din reputedly Verb Adverb UNKNOWN 3465 3 2 "But not until we have dined," Dosey said, falling back in his chair. Palmaris was second in size in all the Kingdom of Honce-the-Bear only to Ursal, the throne seat, further upriver, though neither were reputedly as populous as the great, crowded cities of the southern kingdom of Behren.
67 captive commonly Adjective Adverb UNKNOWN B2 3466 3 2 Elbryan looked down to his diminutive captive. The attack was fairly strongthough he would have expected more from powerful Brother Avelyn - but the sunstone was among the most potent of all the stones of St.-Mere-Abelle, its defenses even more complete than the chrysoberyl more commonly used, and its power was more tightly focused than any other, a simple shield against magic.
68 plausible ample Adjective UNKNOWN 3467 3 2 But Brother Justice needed the merchant, as well, or at least it seemed plausible that the man might aid the monk in his all-important quest. They were about the same height, but Tol, with his barrel-like torso and ample belly, was heavier.
69 wry suitor Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3468 3 2 Elbryan turned a wry gaze on the centaur. And it was all done in such good fun that neither Graevis nor any suitor of her unsuspecting dance partner ever seemed to care.
70 appreciated unrivaled Adjective Verb UNKNOWN 3469 3 2 The huge man had never appreciated Belster's relationship with the strange Nightbird and had said so often and loudly. Pettibwa just had an unrivaled love of life and of other people.
71 converse accent Noun UNKNOWN B2 3470 3 2 Yes, Elbryan would like to converse with Pony, to see her again, to remember that innocent time when patrolling was play and nightmares were not real. Elbryan couldn't make out every word; the goblins were using the language spoken by the common folk of Corona, but the creatures' accents were so thick, their slang so heavy, that the ranger could only get a general impression of their conversation.
72 herd sarcasm Noun UNKNOWN 3471 3 2 Who might this leader of the herd be to inspire such uncharacteristic respect from cocky Bradwarden? Connor glared at him, hardly appreciating the sarcasm.
73 unerringly meek Adverb Adjective UNKNOWN 3472 3 2 The monk fell back, nearly toppling, as the stone suddenly zipped away, flying unerringly for the armored chest of the giant closest behind Bradwarden. She offered a meek smile and a nod to Pettibwa, who returned them with a wink.
74 tutor savior Noun UNKNOWN 3473 3 2 Over the next couple of weeks, as they marched along the trails, Avelyn showed Jill just how much he had come to trust her, for he began formally tutoring her in the ways of the stones. 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.
75 evergreens barmaid Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3474 3 2 Elkenbrook was a village not unlike Dundalis or Weedy Meadow, except that, being on the western border of Alpinador, it was a colder place, with more hardy evergreens and fewer deciduous trees. Suddenly he was off balance, and then he was sitting on the floor, the pretty barmaid gliding out of reach.
76 whinny precisely Verb Adverb UNKNOWN B2 3475 3 2 The stallion pawed the ground, then reared and whinnied. their goal through honor, Cat knew; was precisely the same as the drunk had attempted through offered gold.
77 muscled graciously Adjective Adverb UNKNOWN 3476 3 2 Symphony had gone perfectly still, his head raised high, his magnificent, muscled chest presented openly to the two men. She worked for another hour, and when her smile did not return, Graevis graciously bade her to take an early night.
78 sorely toast Adverb Noun UNKNOWN 3477 3 2 It was risky setting a light in the dark forest, but these folk sorely needed the warmth. Cat looked back appreciatively, and over Pettibwa's large round shoulder, she saw again the handsome well-dressed young man, watching her go, lifting his glass of wine in apparent toast to her.
79 access solitude Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3478 3 2 That joining by means of the hematite when he had been sorely wounded had given her an understanding of accessing the powers on a level that other monks spent months, even years, trying to attain. Her rage bubbled away, and she turned from the alley, walking back into the solitude of the darkened rooftop.
80 secretive inheritance Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3479 3 2 Not only was her gain exponential, but so was the monk's understanding of this secretive woman - and of her dark past. Stiff even, and as the young woman had grown wiser to the ways of the world, she came to understand that Grady saw her as a threat to what he considered his rightful inheritance.
81 urgent apron Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3480 3 2 The kiss became more urgent, and gradually Pony's fears melted away, swept up in the sudden torrent of passion that overcame her. Sometime later, Pettibwa came out of the inn, rubbing her hands on her apron, wiping the sweat from her brow, smiling, always smiling, as she went about the business of her life.
82 feign brine Infinitive Noun UNKNOWN 3481 3 2 It is evident in every stride you take, in every smile you feign= yea, feign, I say, for have you really smiled, Jill? Even now, after nearly four years in Palmaris, when she knew every street, where to go, where to avoid, and when the dark image of the great Masur Delaval and the smell of brine and the wind filled with crisp wetness had become very familiar to her, she could not consider the place her home.
83 reclusive affectionately Adjective Adverb UNKNOWN 3482 3 2 It is likely that most of the giants, normally reclusive beasts, will turn back for their mountain homes, far from the villages of humans. It had been given to her affectionately, she knew, and with all sympathy for her pitiful predicament, and so she had not argued.
84 resonate soot Verb Noun UNKNOWN 3483 3 2 Jill's deep breath resonated like a growl and she turned, pulling free of the monk, staring hard at the tavern, at its stone foundation. There lay Avelyn, motionless and soot covered.
85 barricade tag Noun Verb UNKNOWN B2 3484 3 2 Normally the goblins would have come in as a mob, a rushing horde, barreling past the trees and scrub, throwing themselves wildly against the pickets and barricades. Then came the long journey, tagging along with a merchant caravan that had swapped crafted items to the people of the small frontier village in exchange for pelts and great trees that would be used as masts for the sailing ships built in Palmaris.
86 maraud phenomenon Gerund Noun UNKNOWN B2 3485 3 2 Often marauding goblins would send in a messenger before the attack to ask for surrender, to barter for a bribe, warning that battle would otherwise be joined. Perhaps, but Juraviel knew, too, that such events might accompany a larger and darker phenomenon, that earthquakes that could tear the earth as here, that goblin raids upon villages, like the one that had orphaned Elbryan not five years before, might signal something evil indeed.
87 nook metallic Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3486 3 2 More images came rushing to her as soon as she sat in the nook of those pines. She considered going back into the Way and inquiring about this Halo right then, but her concentration was broken by a sharp, metallic sound.
88 glancing namesake Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3487 3 2 A deft twist by the woman turned the sword out of harm's way, allowing Brother Justice merely a glancing hit that forced Jill back a step. Quick as her namesake, the young woman leaped across and put her knee heavily into the drunk's chest, knocking him flat to the roof.
89 bounty nibble Noun Verb UNKNOWN 3488 3 2 It was more than any bounty, the ranger knew. But the young monk could not pull his mind far from the horrors he had witnessed, the encroaching evil that nibbled at the very heart of all that young Avelyn Desbris had held dear.
90 rowdy squirming Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3489 3 2 The dwarf was telling some rowdy story, the two goblins laughing riotously at every grotesque detail. He pushed down hard to secure the squirming youngster and swung about, Hawkwing in his free hand, ready to fend off an attack.
91 contort ashamed Verb PastTense UNKNOWN B2 3490 3 2 Tol bowed his head, his face contorting as he struggled, pragmatism against conscience. And she was not ashamed, not embarrassed, and no black wings of horrors past swept up about her.
92 brawl bosom Noun UNKNOWN 3491 3 2 The ranger elbowed through the brawl, blocking punches whenever necessary, felling with three shortened blows yet another villager who tried to pounce upon him. The woman desperately wanted to seek out Graevis and Pettibwa, to tell them she was all right, to hug them and fall comfortably onto Pettibwa's soft bosom.
93 hammer ingrained Verb Adjective UNKNOWN 3492 3 2 The ranger smiled once more as Tol Yuganick attacked again, only to be hammered away. It seemed that as every ceremony became ingrained within him, it lost a bit of its mystery, and thus, its holiness.
94 substance considered Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3493 3 2 This man had been-poisoned, no doubt about it, but the poison was not based in any substance, in any herb or plant or any animal venom. Even the children of the Alpinadoran frontier - and most of the still - wild kingdom was considered frontier!
95 northwest mediator Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 3494 3 2 Diagonally, across the field to the northwest, moving through the stark lines of thinner trees, came three forms, obviously goblin scouts. 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.
96 thief watery Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3495 3 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. But for all the harsh reality, for all the possibilities that he would not survive, Avelyn watched the watery horizon for hint of those square sails most intently of all.
97 adversary pinnacle Noun UNKNOWN 3496 3 2 Hardly thinking of the motion, knowing only that he could not lose this advantage against so deadly an adversary, Elbryan popped the feathered tip onto his Weapon and bent it low, quickly setting the bowstring. To his thinking, this was the pinnacle of his existence, the greatest joy that a monk of St.-Mere-Abelle might know, the closest, before death, that he could ever get to his God.
98 outcropping mustache Noun UNKNOWN 3497 3 2 Elbryan scrambled to get to the spot, saw the monk land heavily atop one rocky outcropping and then tumble right over it, a fifteen-foot plummet to bard stone. By all appearances, the man was impressive - tall and straight, mustache and goatee neatly trimmed, his red-trimmed blue overcoat tailored straight and proper, black leather baldric crossing right shoulder to left hip and sporting an impressive sword, a family heirloom.
99 tempt ornamental Verb Adjective UNKNOWN 3498 3 2 Elbryan, too, was tempted, would have loved to see Andur'Blough Inninness again, especially now, to bolster his resolve before he completed this all-important, perilous journey. That garment held Avelyn's attention acutely, for he sensed that at least one of those jewels, a small ruby, was more than ornamental.
100 moonlit trimmed Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 3499 3 2 Then he set off, riding hard through the moonlit woods. He was dirty and gray, his hair cropped short and badly trimmed, and his beard untended.
101 graze untended Verb PastTense UNKNOWN 3500 3 2 They went off together into the night, finding Symphony in a moonlit field, grazing calmly. Except for that hardened face with its wild, untended beard, this man could have passed as a brother of Tol Yuganick, Elbryan noted distastefully.