"lemma","pos","cefr_level","coverage_rank","context_sentence","context_sentence_zh","definition_zh" "grabby","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4501","But he was a letch, a drooling, grabby slob, who took it personally when Jill refused his advances.","","" "uniform","Noun","UNKNOWN","4502","""I choose to walk to honor the uniform I wear."" Gofflaw snorted and wiped a greasy hand down the front of his own red jacket.","","" "lass","Noun","UNKNOWN","4503","""A brave lass to the end,"" Bradwarden noted.","","" "motto","Noun","UNKNOWN","4504","Ăˆver vigilant, ever watchful,' "" she finished, the motto of the once proud Coastpoint Guards.","","" "decent","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4505","Also, it had surprised Jill how much she missed Constantine Presso, a decent man - by Pireth Tulme's standards, at least.","","" "views","Noun","UNKNOWN","4506","""Just wary,"" Juraviel finished for him, moving down the tree so that the man could see him clearly, one of the few views the elf had allowed to any of the humans.","","" "arrival","Noun","UNKNOWN","4507","On the very first night after her arrival, one of the men had tried to get too familiar with the fiery woman.","","" "swollen","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4508","He had limped for a week, one foot swollen, one ankle and both his knees bruised, one eye closed and a lip too fat for him to drink anything without it dribbling down the front of his shirt.","","" "bruised","Verb","UNKNOWN","4509","He had limped for a week, one foot swollen, one ankle and both his knees bruised, one eye closed and a lip too fat for him to drink anything without it dribbling down the front of his shirt.","","" "acceptance","Noun","UNKNOWN","4510","Despite his acceptance of the behavior within Pireth Tulme, Jill recognized that he was a man of some honor.","","" "solitary","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4511","There were even reports of a smoke cloud rising lazily over the Barbacan, streaming from a solitary mountain known as Aida.","","" "underworld","Noun","UNKNOWN","4512","Into the spike, the demon sent its power, the strength of the underworld, the strength to burn.","","" "crisscross","Gerund","UNKNOWN","4513","One had many daggers within easy grasp, hanging on a bandolier that crisscrossed his chest.","","" "neat","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4514","Elbryan understood immediately that this was their destination, that there was something unusual about these plants; they were growing in neat rows, evenly spaced, and the ground around them was bare.","","" "gracefully","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4515","Silvery lines wove gracefully about the dark green stem; they seemed to Elbryan consistent with the fishing lines and the bowstrings the elves used.","","" "implement","Verb","B2","4516","The elves used many metal implements - shields and swords mostly - and Elbryan had sometimes wondered where they got the material, since, to his knowledge, there were no working mines in Andur'Blough Inninness.","","" "assumed","Verb","UNKNOWN","4517","He had assumed that they traded for the metal, but then he had come to realize that elven metal was unlike anything he had seen outside the enchanted valley.","","" "resilient","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4518","Elbryan knew how strong find resilient his bow was, and so he figured that if the softening gel would work on darkfern, it might even defeat the metal.","","" "berry","Noun","UNKNOWN","4519","But fruits and berries are naught but ticklings.","","" "slit","Noun","UNKNOWN","4520","The old elf took up a curious-looking knife, bent upward on both sides and with its cutting edge on one side of a slit running down its middle.","","" "crafting","Noun","UNKNOWN","4521","His was an act of the purest creation and not a mere crafting; his art was bound by magic and by the sheer skill that seven hundred years had honed.","","" "hone","Verb","UNKNOWN","4522","She was no novice to battle, this one, with finely honed reflexes.","","" "notch","Gerund","UNKNOWN","4523","He would spend the better part of half a year on this one, he knew, scraping and treating, notching and weaving spells of strength.","","" "spells","Noun","UNKNOWN","4524","He would spend the better part of half a year on this one, he knew, scraping and treating, notching and weaving spells of strength.","","" "personality","Noun","UNKNOWN","4525","He had no idea what title he would give the bow; that would come to him as the weapon took on its own personality, its own nuances.","","" "fluidly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4526","It had come so fluidly, so fast, that Elbryan was still staring at the elf when he heard the third arrow hit.","","" "embed","Verb","UNKNOWN","4527","He was almost afraid to look up at the mark and wasn't surprised to find all three embedded squarely in the target, one in the bull'seye, the other two right beside it.","","" "waver","Verb","UNKNOWN","4528","Every time his concentration wavered even a bit, his arrow flew wide of the mark, disappearing into the forest scrub.","","" "callus","Noun","UNKNOWN","4529","The fingers of the young man's right hand were soon laced with calluses, and the leather on the inside of his black arm guard had been worn down to half its original thickness.","","" "upside","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4530","He looked up to see that last giant upside down, flailing wildly, futilely, floating even farther away.","","" "exploits","Noun","UNKNOWN","4531","- to his exploits in the Wilderlands.","","" "broadsword","Noun","UNKNOWN","4532","Of the six, only one was still accounted for, a huge broadsword named Icebreaker, wielded by a rarely seen ranger, Andacanavar, in the far northland of Alpinador.","","" "seen","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4533","Of the six, only one was still accounted for, a huge broadsword named Icebreaker, wielded by a rarely seen ranger, Andacanavar, in the far northland of Alpinador.","","" "northland","Noun","UNKNOWN","4534","Of the six, only one was still accounted for, a huge broadsword named Icebreaker, wielded by a rarely seen ranger, Andacanavar, in the far northland of Alpinador.","","" "perceive","Verb","UNKNOWN","4535","And it went deeper than that; the ranger came to perceive the world about Symphony through the eyes of the magnificent horse.","","" "modesty","Noun","UNKNOWN","4536","Modesty caused Elbryan to hesitate, but Tuntun wasn't in the mood for a debate.","","" "choosing","Noun","UNKNOWN","4537","They broke their line often, individual elves leaping into pirouettes or simply following steps of their own choosing, but in general the rotation continued about Elbryan.","","" "absently","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4538","""I hear the birds,"" he answered absently.","","" "renewed","Verb","UNKNOWN","4539","Pony heard the renewed fighting, the ringing blade, the roaring monster.","","" "deceive","Verb","UNKNOWN","4540","They had named the ranger Nightbird, and so the elf's dream had not deceived him.","","" "taper","Verb","UNKNOWN","4541","A subtle shift, still too quick for the creature to dodge, and Elbryan stabbed the tapered end out straight, striking the goblin on its sloping forehead right above and between the eyes, laying it out straight in the stream.","","" "finely","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4542","A new set of clothes, finely made, was laid out on the floor before him.","","" "dump","Verb","UNKNOWN","4543","The ranger went around to the back and dumped out the cauldron of poison.","","" "hawk","Noun","UNKNOWN","4544","As the bow bent, the three feathers on its top tip separated from one another, looking like the ""fingers"" on the end of the wing of a gliding hawk.","","" "shrub","Noun","UNKNOWN","4545","The land was relatively flat and brown, with sparse low shrubs poking here and there.","","" "settler","Plural","UNKNOWN","4546","There were the Moorlands - the Soupy Bogs, they had been affectionately called by the settlers on the edge of the Wilderlands.","","" "guardian","Plural","UNKNOWN","4547","He was a ranger, a guardian of the frontier humans and also of the forest and its creatures.","","" "meandering","Verb","UNKNOWN","4548","He came over a rise and saw a silvery stream winding below him, meandering this way and that across the brown clay.","","" "basin","Noun","UNKNOWN","4549","Rivulets of runoff had been crystalline all through the Moorlands, except in those low basins where the water collected and remained, where the ground and water seemed to blend, to melt together into a thick muddy stew.","","" "subtly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4550","One of his senses subtly called out a warning to him.","","" "upstream","Noun","UNKNOWN","4551","He noted a splash, not so far in the distance upstream.","","" "rises","Noun","UNKNOWN","4552","The stream flowed around one of the deceivingly high rises, turning out of sight just a couple dozen yards from where he stood.","","" "consistency","Noun","UNKNOWN","4553","The noise increased - by the volume and consistency of the splashing, Elbryan figured there must be about a half dozen bipedal creatures approaching.","","" "thankfully","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4554","The others held clubs and crude swords, but thankfully, no bows.","","" "eeyan","Noun","UNKNOWN","4555","""Eeyan kos?"" one of them called.","","" "justified","Verb","UNKNOWN","4556","If that was the case, would he be justified in waging battle with these six?","","" "whoop","Noun","UNKNOWN","4557","With a whoop of delight, the other goblins, predictably, came on.","","" "flanking","Noun","UNKNOWN","4558","Elbryan caught the staff firmly in his left hand and extended that arm out in similar fashion so that the other flanking goblin was poked away.","","" "hitting","Noun","UNKNOWN","4559","Seeing that creature in full flight, Elbryan stabbed the staff back out hard to his left, hitting the dazed and battered goblin right in the face.","","" "backtracking","Noun","UNKNOWN","4560","Now I wonder if it wasn't merely a memory returned, a backtracking of the same course the elves.","","" "caves","Noun","UNKNOWN","4561","There are several small caves on the backside of that slope, overlooking the wide vale.","","" "resident","Noun","UNKNOWN","4562","I have no new friends among the current residents of Dundalis, and in truth, I expect none.","","" "outskirt","Noun","UNKNOWN","4563","""I have an ear for what you might need to say."" Jill considered the offer for a long moment, then moved away with the man to a room he had rented in a small inn on the outskirts of Macomber.","","" "deceptive","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4564","""What?"" the ranger asked, skidding aside and turning to squarely face this deceptive foe.","","" "stooping","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4565","Tol moved closer to the stooping ranger as he spoke.","","" "farmhouse","Noun","UNKNOWN","4566","A black bear had attacked a farmhouse and that alone was enough of a mystery to force the ranger to investigate.","","" "vent","Gerund","UNKNOWN","4567","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.","","" "foamy","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4568","He feared that he would find foamy saliva there, an indication of the most wicked disease.","","" "raccoon","Noun","UNKNOWN","4569","If that was the case, then Elbryan would have his work cut out from him indeed, hunting almost day and night for other infected animals, everything from raccoons and weasels to bats.","","" "weasel","Noun","UNKNOWN","4570","Weasel?"" The centaur snorted.","","" "foam","Noun","UNKNOWN","4571","No foam; the ranger breathed a sigh of relief.","","" "sappy","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4572","Elbryan recognized the black, sappy poison, a pain - inducing product of a rare black birch tree.","","" "purposeful","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4573","This was no accident but a purposeful attack on the bear.","","" "hut","Noun","UNKNOWN","4574","Their hut, a mere shack of logs and old boards - Elbryan got the distinct impression that many of these had come from the ruins of Dundalis - was at the top of a hill.","","" "camouflage","Noun","UNKNOWN","4575","Slowly Brother Justice closed, using bodies as camouflage.","","" "stealthily","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4576","Then, fearful that they would be too late, the pair split, left and right, and moved quickly and stealthily right up to the edge of the cavern entrance.","","" "vat","Noun","UNKNOWN","4577","She turned to the catapult, its arm low and ready to fire, then looked at the vats of burning pitch, wondering what mischief she might cause.","","" "concoction","Singular","UNKNOWN","4578","In a vat not far from the back wall of the shack, the ranger found a thick concoction of black liquid, and quickly surmised it to be the same irritant poison that had been used on the bear.","","" "cracks","Noun","UNKNOWN","4579","The walls of the shack were in bad disrepair, with cracks between every board.","","" "farm","Noun","UNKNOWN","4580","""The bear that destroyed a farm in Dundalis and nearly killed a family.""","","" "bringing","Noun","UNKNOWN","4581","He fell away and Elbryan came up hard, bringing Hawkwing horizontal above his head in both hands to catch the downward chop of the second man's sword.","","" "restrain","Verb","UNKNOWN","4582","Again the monk restrained his feeling of outrage that this man - this simple, pitiful, wretched merchant could speak of Father Abbot Markwart as if he were the man's equal.","","" "inflict","Infinitive","UNKNOWN","4583","He had to find some way to hurt this thing, and though his sword might inflict some sting, it seemed that the wound could only be so deep.","","" "stout","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4584","Jill regarded the short, stout man curiously.","","" "letch","Noun","UNKNOWN","4585","But he was a letch, a drooling, grabby slob, who took it personally when Jill refused his advances.","","" "revert","Verb","UNKNOWN","4586","Even his strict rules for duty had relaxed within the week, Pireth Tulme reverting to its typical partying ways.","","" "hangover","Noun","UNKNOWN","4587","She collected ten of Pireth Tulme's Coastpoint Guards, using their hangovers as a tool for rejecting more of the others, then set out, double-timing the march down the dirt path.","","" "reject","Verb","UNKNOWN","4588","She collected ten of Pireth Tulme's Coastpoint Guards, using their hangovers as a tool for rejecting more of the others, then set out, double-timing the march down the dirt path.","","" "foothold","Noun","UNKNOWN","4589","""Oh, evil, what a foothold you have found!","","" "barter","Verb","UNKNOWN","4590","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.","","" "hah","Noun","UNKNOWN","4591","""Hah!"" the huge man bellowed.","","" "whoring","Gerund","UNKNOWN","4592","""What piety is, there in whoring?","","" "foolhardiness","Noun","UNKNOWN","4593","What dignity in foolhardiness?","","" "grumbles","Noun","UNKNOWN","4594","""They are too great in number."" That brought a few grumbles, including.","","" "fete","Noun","UNKNOWN","4595","Jill watched him for a fete moments, honestly intrigued.","","" "encroachment","Noun","UNKNOWN","4596","""I beg of you, do not, for you are part of the encroachment, do you not see?","","" "sheath","Noun","UNKNOWN","4597","Gofflaw growled at her, but under Jill's unyielding glare, he replaced his sword in its sheath.","","" "insulting","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4598","Bradwarden snorted as if the very question were insulting.","","" "weep","Verb","UNKNOWN","4599","She moved to the door to see the friar shuffling down the muddy lane, weeping and crying out for the ""sins of men"" and the woeful state of preparation.","","" "diatribe","Noun","UNKNOWN","4600","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.","",""