"lemma","pos","cefr_level","coverage_rank","global_frequency","context_sentence","context_sentence_zh","definition_zh"
"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.","",""