"lemma","pos","cefr_level","coverage_rank","context_sentence","context_sentence_zh","definition_zh"
"thrum","Gerund","UNKNOWN","4101","The ruby was thrumming in his hand, its magic intense and straining for release.","",""
"heartfelt","Noun","UNKNOWN","4102","Father Abbot Markwart burst out into the most heartfelt laughter Avelyn had ever heard.","",""
"bath","Verb","UNKNOWN","4103","Elbryan realized that he was bathed in a cold sweat.","",""
"aroma","Noun","UNKNOWN","4104","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 ...","",""
"ridgeline","Noun","UNKNOWN","4105","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","UNKNOWN","4106","""West,"" Elbryan decided after studying it for a moment, his instincts, his internal directional sense, sorting things out.","",""
"buffeted","Verb","UNKNOWN","4107","Cold winds and stinging spray buffeted the crew.","",""
"unmoving","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4108","Elbryan looked down the slope curiously, just the few feet to the unmoving mist.","",""
"whitecap","Gerund","UNKNOWN","4109","Not so far above him, Elbryan could see the snow on this mountain and on all the others, a whitecapping that the young man suspected might be perpetual.","",""
"chime","Verb","UNKNOWN","4110","Somehow he knew the speaker was not human, that no human voice could chime so sweetly, so perfectly.","",""
"supple","Noun","UNKNOWN","4111","This creature's limbs didn't look skinny, any more than did the supple branches of a bending willow.","",""
"bending","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4112","This creature's limbs didn't look skinny, any more than did the supple branches of a bending willow.","",""
"plainly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4113","The way the words were spoken, however plainly and without any apparent deception allowed Elbryan to relax somewhat.","",""
"deception","Singular","UNKNOWN","4114","The way the words were spoken, however plainly and without any apparent deception allowed Elbryan to relax somewhat.","",""
"shimmer","Noun","UNKNOWN","4115","It was as if the being shone of its own accord, an inner light making the flowing hair glow and shimmer.","",""
"relative","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4116","Juraviel had a response for that, a remark concerning the relative unpreparedness of Dundalis in the face of such knowledge.","",""
"equipped","Verb","UNKNOWN","4117","Thus was Brother Justice equipped to find and destroy Avelyn.","",""
"destroying","Noun","UNKNOWN","4118","Am I goblin or fomorian?"" Juraviel asked calmly, that melodic voice alone destroying any possible comparisons to the croaking and growling monsters.","",""
"croak","Gerund","UNKNOWN","4119","Am I goblin or fomorian?"" Juraviel asked calmly, that melodic voice alone destroying any possible comparisons to the croaking and growling monsters.","",""
"shallow","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4120","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.","",""
"tidy","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4121","There could be only one answer, for no living creature, not even one of the great dragons of the north, could so tear this amount of ground in such an even, tidy manner.","",""
"arrogance","Noun","UNKNOWN","4122","Elbryan realized the arrogance of that notion, an almost sinful pride,.","",""
"impulse","Noun","UNKNOWN","4123","But the dactyl was not a stupid creature and could control its impulses, even those bent upon destruction, which the demon loved above all else.","",""
"widening","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4124","The sharks would feed on the dead, and the frantic actions of those still alive combined with the widening blood spill would likely bring more in, he knew.","",""
"speeding","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4125","He imagined the wind, the green treetop canopy speeding below him ...","",""
"unpleasant","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4126","The ranger quickly removed his clothes, the grass feeling scratchy but not unpleasant to his feet.","",""
"likeness","Noun","UNKNOWN","4127","Twin rows of massive columns, each carved into the likeness of a giant warrior, lined the room.","",""
"peril","Noun","UNKNOWN","4128","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","4129","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.","",""
"remainder","Noun","UNKNOWN","4130","He spent the remainder of the afternoon caught up in the sights and smells.","",""
"going","Noun","UNKNOWN","4131","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","4132","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.","",""
"spiritually","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4133","Though he was back on earth, spiritually, the music remained, soft and wonderful, emanating from every shadow, from every tree, from the ground itself.","",""
"singer","Noun","UNKNOWN","4134","His direction chosen, he started off, determined to find the singer.","",""
"glimpsed","Verb","UNKNOWN","4135","Inside, Avelyn glimpsed Siherton and Jojonah with the Father Abbot, the old man livid about the mishap in the stone room.","",""
"oak","Noun","UNKNOWN","4136","Juraviel found him at dawn, curled in a hollow at the base of a wide oak.","",""
"unanswer","Verb","UNKNOWN","4137","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.","",""
"bathe","Verb","UNKNOWN","4138","Elbryan was expected to bathe daily, to keep his clothing clean, and since his beard was splotchy and uneven, not yet that of a man, to keep his face clean shaven.","",""
"temporary","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4139","I had ascended from this temporary existence, from a place of constant change to a place of eternity.","",""
"breech","Noun","UNKNOWN","4140","CHAPTER 10 Made of Tougher Stuff

Elbryan rolled his breeches up over his knees - not that the worn and ragged pants would stay that way for long!","",""
"singsong","Noun","UNKNOWN","4141","From somewhere in the thick brush behind him, he heard a call, ""Be quick about it!"" The words were not spoken in the common tongue of Honce-the-Bear but in the singsong, melodious language of the elves, a language Elbryan was already beginning to comprehend.","",""
"reckon","Verb","UNKNOWN","4142","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.","",""
"gusting","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4143","He remembered well the hardships, and the excitement, of Dundalis in the winter, the gusting wind throwing icy particles against the side of the cabin, the piles of blowing snow, sometimes so deep that he and his father had to break through a drift just to get outside!","",""
"pant","Noun","UNKNOWN","4144","She stood before him, panting.","",""
"waded","Verb","UNKNOWN","4145","He picked up his basket, cursed when one pant leg slipped down into the water, then waded out through the reeds.","",""
"reed","Noun","UNKNOWN","4146","Parting one patch of reeds, the boy found his first stone of the day, bobbing low in the water.","",""
"flavored","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4147","When he squeezed them, extracting the now-flavored liquid, the elves would inevitably complain about how little he had collected.","",""
"ironically","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4148","The monk had found peace within himself, ironically, in the midst of a war, a battle that Avelyn knew justified the actions that had weighed so heavily on him these last years.","",""
"sticky","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4149","those silken elven strands, which, Elbryan found out soon enough, could be made as sticky and clingy as a spiderweb.","",""
"steaming","Verb","UNKNOWN","4150","He looked at the brush helplessly, at the steaming stew, just a few strides away.","",""
"sped","PastTense","UNKNOWN","4151","Laughter trailed him as he sped away, and Elbryan sensed that there was some measure of admiration in it.","",""
"impossible","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4152","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.","",""
"circuitous","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4153","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","4154","- and had cleverly covered it with a layer of dirt and fallen leaves, supported by a trellis of woven sticks.","",""
"woven","Noun","UNKNOWN","4155","Into the spike, the beast sent its vision, the telltale tracings of human-woven magic.","",""
"phony","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4156","He would have leaped clear of the phony, only to drop heavily into the real one.","",""
"dimension","Plural","UNKNOWN","4157","Now it was Elbryan's turn to laugh, as he discerned the dimensions of the true trap, then easily leaped it, leaving the last few feet of the path, the last expanse to the food, open to him.","",""
"fletching","Noun","UNKNOWN","4158","A long arrow protruded from its back, an arrow with fletchings familiar to the woman.","",""
"cowards","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4159","Are you cowards, then?","",""
"mess","Noun","UNKNOWN","4160","It struck the bowl of stew, overturning it and making a mess of the meal.","",""
"miserably","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4161","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","4162","He wheeled, but Tuntun turned with him, staying behind him and punching out a veritable drum roll on his upper back.","",""
"indignantly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4163","""He fights like a human,"" Tuntun answered indignantly.","",""
"porous","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4164","His spirit walked free of his body, passed through the porous wood of the door and past the pair of oblivious guards.","",""
"juices","Noun","UNKNOWN","4165","The combination of bog water and milk-stones, as the elves called them, produced some of the sweetest juices in all of Corona.","",""
"intoxicating","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4166","From this raw product, the elves would make their intoxicating wine, Questel ni'touel to the elves, but known to the wide world simply as ""boggle."" The swamplike connotation of the name was usually completely lost on the humans, who thought the term a mere reference to their state of mind after but a few sips of the potent liquid.","",""
"contacts","Noun","UNKNOWN","4167","I have friends here, valuable friends.""

""Take care that your questions do not lead your contacts to the way to Pimaninicuit,"" Quintall whispered ominously.","",""
"bard","Noun","UNKNOWN","4168","Their contacts in the wide human world were discrete and few, but the elves did enough trading so that they could bring desired items, curiosity pieces mostly, and a sampling of songs of the few human bards who could bring them pleasure, into their valley.","",""
"defiance","Noun","UNKNOWN","4169","The monk snarled in defiance and kicked at the heavy door.","",""
"finality","Noun","UNKNOWN","4170","""It was God's will,"" Markwart said with finality.","",""
"angling","Noun","UNKNOWN","4171","Juraviel took full advantage, put Elbryan off balance and kept on twisting, angling the boy over the trough.","",""
"illogic","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4172","If you fail in this, if you do not prove yourself worthy of elven friendship, you cannot be let out into the world with the knowledge you have attained of our home and of our ways.""

Even as Elbryan started to protest, horrified at the thought of becoming a prisoner, Juraviel finished grimly, ""Nor can you stay.""

Elbryan's thoughts shifted to the illogic of it all.","",""
"inhuman","Noun","UNKNOWN","4173","Jojonah closed his eyes and remembered all the times Siherton had warned him about Avelyn's almost inhuman dedication.","",""
"substitute","Gerund","UNKNOWN","4174","Yet measured against the speed and agility of the elves, the fluidity of their movements, substituting perfect balance for lack of weight and strength, Elbryan truly felt a novice.","",""
"astounding","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4175","Juraviel, lighter and smaller, had put him down with astounding ease, a simple movement for which Elbryan had no counter.","",""
"benefits","Noun","UNKNOWN","4176","But it was not without its benefits.","",""
"gangly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4177","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","4178","CHAPTER 11 Cat-the-Stray

""Corner table, Cat,"" called Graevis Chilichunk, the barkeep and proprietor of Fellowship Way, reputedly the finest inn in all the great city of Palmaris.","",""
"reputedly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4179","CHAPTER 11 Cat-the-Stray

""Corner table, Cat,"" called Graevis Chilichunk, the barkeep and proprietor of Fellowship Way, reputedly the finest inn in all the great city of Palmaris.","",""
"commonly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4180","Fellowship Way, or the Way, as it was commonly called, was not a large establishment, boasting only a dozen small, private rooms and a single common bedroom in the upstairs guest quarters, and a tavern that could hold no more than a hundred, and that with most folks standing.","",""
"cheapest","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4181","She took the order from the three - no surprise here, just three more mugs of the cheapest ale - then turned to the bar.","",""
"lesser","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4182","The noble visitors to Palmaris mostly stayed at the more haughty establishments, those near or within the duke's castle, but for those who knew, for the lesser merchants and the frequent wanderers, there was no better place in the world than Fellowship Way.","",""
"customer","Noun","UNKNOWN","4183","In the Way, a single piece of silver would get you a hot meal, and a mere smile, whether you were a paying customer or not, would coax from Graevis or from most of the other usual patrons or workers a marvelous tale.","",""
"worker","Noun","UNKNOWN","4184","He was a worker, a true frontiersman.","",""
"ample","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4185","They were about the same height, but Tol, with his barrel-like torso and ample belly, was heavier.","",""
"suitor","Noun","UNKNOWN","4186","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","4187","Pettibwa just had an unrivaled love of life and of other people.","",""
"loving","Verb","UNKNOWN","4188","Pony went to him, loving him all the more, feeling a true kinship with the man, feeling a great deal of pity, as well.","",""
"commoner","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4189","Grady's standing was nowhere near Connor's, and the only reason the baron's nephew suffered the almost constant companionship of the upstart commoner was for the sake of his adopted sister.","",""
"sarcasm","Noun","UNKNOWN","4190","""No, ye're not a pretty one, now are ye?"" Pettibwa cooed with smiling sarcasm, stroking Cat's hair.","",""
"devil","Noun","UNKNOWN","4191","She sensed that her hair had been much shorter then, back when she was young and all the world seemed a great adventure, back when the devils were just fireside stories to make, your skin tingle or imagined demons upon whom children could wage war.","",""
"meek","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4192","She offered a meek smile and a nod to Pettibwa, who returned them with a wink.","",""
"atmosphere","Noun","UNKNOWN","4193","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.","",""
"savior","Noun","UNKNOWN","4194","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","4195","Suddenly he was off balance, and then he was sitting on the floor, the pretty barmaid gliding out of reach.","",""
"champion","Noun","UNKNOWN","4196","""Even as we speak, your mighty champion and your precious companion are dying.","",""
"precisely","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4197","their goal through honor, Cat knew; was precisely the same as the drunk had attempted through offered gold.","",""
"graciously","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4198","She worked for another hour, and when her smile did not return, Graevis graciously bade her to take an early night.","",""
"toast","Noun","UNKNOWN","4199","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","4200","Her rage bubbled away, and she turned from the alley, walking back into the solitude of the darkened rooftop.","",""