"lemma","pos","cefr_level","coverage_rank","context_sentence","context_sentence_zh","definition_zh"
"overwhelming","Adjective","B2","2101","CHAPTER 48 Enemies Ancient

""You and your friends saved us all, I do not dispute,"" Jingo Gregor said, his voice cracking from the strain of the last few weeks, the overwhelming surprises and horrors.","",""
"wield","Verb","UNKNOWN","2102","""Mather wielded Tempest,"" Juraviel said grimly.","",""
"devastation","Singular","UNKNOWN","2103","Now Elbryan steeled himself against the scene of devastation.","",""
"mass","Noun","UNKNOWN","2104","But even with all that mass, there was nothing awkward about the young man.","",""
"judgment","Noun","UNKNOWN","2105","Elbryan shook that away immediately, knowing the rage within him, the hunger for revenge, could cloud his judgment, could consume him.","",""
"sour","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2106","Juraviel glared at Tuntun, for the female's sour attitude had forced the words out before any sound screen could be cast up.","",""
"invitation","Singular","UNKNOWN","2107","He accepted the invitation of the soft earth.","",""
"preparation","Singular","UNKNOWN","2108","In addition to their daily duties as first - and second - year students at the abbey, they were given the extra chores of preparation for their journey to Pimaninicuit.","",""
"berate","Verb","UNKNOWN","2109","Pony looked at Avelyn, thinking of his prophecies of doom all those weeks together on the road, thinking of the weakness of the world the monk constantly berated and of the name he gave to it.","",""
"specific","Adjective","B2","2110","""Aim at a specific, very precise point on the target,"" Juraviel explained.","",""
"inspire","Verb","UNKNOWN","2111","The daytime training was not as easy or as inspiring for Avelyn.","",""
"section","Plural","UNKNOWN","2112","Ironically, the laden section of each trip seemed the easiest to Elbryan, for the elves often set traps for him on the journey back to the bog.","",""
"prowess","Noun","UNKNOWN","2113","Their battle prowess was the stuff of legend, of terrifying fireside tales.","",""
"joint","Plural","UNKNOWN","2114","Of course, his ""skin"" was now obsidian in consistency as well as hue, and red lines of molten stone still striped his joints; his eyes, too, were red pits of liquid stone.","",""
"celebration","Singular","UNKNOWN","2115","Put in that manner, this was indeed a day of celebration.","",""
"stamp","Verb","UNKNOWN","2116","""You may go now.""

Elbryan stamped his foot as Juraviel turned away.","",""
"sheet","Noun","UNKNOWN","2117","A sheet of conjured lightning silenced the screams forever.","",""
"condition","Plural","UNKNOWN","2118","Pellimar's condition did not much improve as the days slipped past.","",""
"hungry","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2119","She pulled and turned, looking away as his hungry mouth descended, but he only pursued, pinning one of her arms, putting all of his weight atop her.","",""
"puzzle","Noun","UNKNOWN","2120","Avelyn knew what he could do with that jewel, and when he stopped to consider the implications for the other monks if he used the ruby first, the puzzle seemed not so difficult.","",""
"function","Verb","B2","2121","Only the amber was functioning now, and it kept him above the water.","",""
"burned","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2122","Avelyn's brown robes were tattered and dripping; he had the stench of burned hair about him.","",""
"stair","Noun","UNKNOWN","2123","He motioned for Siherton to follow and started for the stairs.","",""
"chosen","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2124","Besides, at night, and especially on those occasions when the chosen students actually handled the stones, Brother Avelyn easily proved that he was the proper choice.","",""
"trial","Noun","UNKNOWN","2125","Elbryan didn't argue, but he wondered, and almost feared, what future trials could possibly match the pain of that awful day.","",""
"survey","Verb","UNKNOWN","2126","Breathing hard, the woman surveyed the scene.","",""
"peak","Noun","UNKNOWN","2127","Then he came upon the mountains, whipping through passes, over peaks, to a plateau he had seen before above a vast encampment between the black arms of a smoking mountain.","",""
"condescending","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2128","Cat-the-Stray bit her lip, not liking his condescending tone.","",""
"flit","Gerund","UNKNOWN","2129","Juraviel shrugged, a flitting little movement of his slender shoulders.","",""
"stutter","Verb","UNKNOWN","2130","He wanted to proclaim his independence loudly and openly, but before he got the first stuttered word out of his mouth, Juraviel hopped into a short flight once more.","",""
"adjust","Verb","UNKNOWN","2131","His eyes gradually adjusted so that he could just barely make out the larger shapes in the room.","",""
"circuit","Noun","UNKNOWN","2132","He paused and very carefully turned a circuit, listening intently, trying to focus on the sound.","",""
"plunge","Verb","UNKNOWN","2133","The boy took a deep breath and plunged one foot in, held the pose for a moment until the numbness took away the sting, then dipped in his second foot.","",""
"pretty","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2134","To his credit, Elbryan had pretty much learned to ignore them.","",""
"bob","Verb","UNKNOWN","2135","Parting one patch of reeds, the boy found his first stone of the day, bobbing low in the water.","",""
"pip","Verb","UNKNOWN","2136","The elves would set out a grand table, steaming stew and venison, sometimes roasted game fowl, and piping hot tea that warmed the boy from his head to his cold toes.","",""
"understood","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2137","Always it was a hot meal they set, and Elbryan soon understood why.","",""
"chide","Verb","UNKNOWN","2138","""Poor dear Avelyn,"" chided Quintall.","",""
"flare","Verb","UNKNOWN","2139","free, and he immediately stormed up to Tuntun, his green eyes flaring dangerously.","",""
"conscience","Singular","UNKNOWN","2140","Elbryan fumed but couldn't, in good conscience, punch this diminutive creature, half his weight, if that, and a girl besides!","",""
"indication","Singular","UNKNOWN","2141","He feared that he would find foamy saliva there, an indication of the most wicked disease.","",""
"proceed","Verb","UNKNOWN","2142","The ranger wasn't sure how to proceed.","",""
"upper","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2143","But Grady understood he had the upper hand and he would not back away.","",""
"victory","Noun","UNKNOWN","2144","Would his victory prove tainted?","",""
"potent","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2145","Whenever he was allowed to handle a magical stone, Master Siherton was at his side, a potent and lethal gem in hand.","",""
"comment","Verb","UNKNOWN","2146","Ignoring the comment, the ranger walked past the group and knelt low, inspecting a set of tracks.","",""
"starry","Noun","UNKNOWN","2147","That night, Elbryan sat upon the bare hillock that he claimed as his own, under the starry canopy, alone with his thoughts.","",""
"castle","Noun","UNKNOWN","2148","He fancied himself an important man, and frequented the more expensive establishments near the duke's castle, and had even been in the castle on many occasions.","",""
"coax","Verb","UNKNOWN","2149","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.","",""
"boisterous","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2150","A dozen men and women were in the common room, boisterous until the stranger entered.","",""
"pinch","PastTense","UNKNOWN","2151","Connor brought his hand to it and pinched it hard.","",""
"ale","Noun","UNKNOWN","2152","Brother Justice found their stories, sputtered for the price of a few cheap ales, quite interesting.","",""
"crisp","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2153","""Will ye stay in the abbey, then?"" Dansally asked Avelyn one crisp morning.","",""
"distastefully","Adverb","UNKNOWN","2154","She shook her head distastefully as she walked her watch this night, as she did every night.","",""
"gutter","Noun","UNKNOWN","2155","Somebody was climbing up the gutter.","",""
"absorb","Verb","B2","2156","She let the night canopy absorb her, used it to filter back through the painful barriers.","",""
"rake","Verb","UNKNOWN","2157","She came around and up and right back in, clawing at his face, raking for his eyes.","",""
"squeal","Verb","UNKNOWN","2158","The creature managed to dodge one, but the other caught it on the hip and hung there:

The goblin squealed but hardly slowed, even when Chipmunk's next blade stuck deep into its shoulder.","",""
"depart","Verb","UNKNOWN","2159","would soon depart, a group of elves going to their secret contacts in the frontier villages.","",""
"better","Verb","UNKNOWN","2160","Juraviel knelt to better inspect the ground.","",""
"blessed","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2161","Jill took in another blessed gulp of air and staggered to her feet.","",""
"caravel","Noun","UNKNOWN","2162","Toumanay was less than half finished when the two-masted caravel appeared, gliding swiftly through the choppy waters to the sheltered harbor before St.-

Mere-Abelle.","",""
"tuck","Verb","UNKNOWN","2163","He tucked his hands into his rope belt, taking on an important attitude.","",""
"payment","Noun","UNKNOWN","2164","The sailors cared nothing for this all-important mission, Avelyn realized, beyond their payment of gold - and whatever other trinkets Father Abbot Markwart had included in the bargain.","",""
"topple","Verb","UNKNOWN","2165","And she looked at the dwarf, not understanding until the powrie toppled forward, an arrow deep in its back.","",""
"taffrail","Noun","UNKNOWN","2166","Now at the taffrail the four monks and Captain Adjonas watched the powries' progress.","",""
"closing","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2167","The giant reacted quickly, snapping straight and tall, closing its legs to entrap the foolish human.","",""
"lunge","Gerund","UNKNOWN","2168","She started ahead a step, then turned about abruptly, dropping to one knee and lunging ahead, her free hand catching the second dwarf's swinging sword arm, her own sword driving deep into its chest.","",""
"sprite","Singular","UNKNOWN","2169","He moved to a spot five feet from the sprite and bowed low, as did Tallareyish, in respect.","",""
"flip","Verb","UNKNOWN","2170","Elbryan flipped Tempest up above his head, lining the blade for a throw.","",""
"odds","Noun","UNKNOWN","2171","Jill, whose only experience with a man had been so very disastrous, did not like the odds.","",""
"exaggerate","Verb","B2","2172","To the child Elbryan, this had been the place of wildly exaggerated fireside tales.","",""
"thank","Verb","UNKNOWN","2173","""I will keep my own watch, thank you,"" she replied politely and started away.","",""
"personally","Adverb","UNKNOWN","2174","But he was a letch, a drooling, grabby slob, who took it personally when Jill refused his advances.","",""
"presume","Verb","UNKNOWN","2175","Suddenly this holy place, this place he had presumed prepared by the Touel'alfar themselves, seemed to him no sanctuary at all.","",""
"satisfaction","Singular","UNKNOWN","2176","It is, I believe, the difference between physical satisfaction and true lovemaking, the difference between release and passion.","",""
"veil","Verb","UNKNOWN","2177","They had taught him to view the world as an elf might, with utter freedom and often more veiled in imagination than reality.","",""
"flap","Gerund","UNKNOWN","2178","The hard-headed powrie shook its head vigorously, lips flapping.","",""
"backhand","Noun","UNKNOWN","2179","The powrie came across with a backhand slash, but Avelyn managed to duck beneath it.","",""
"fruit","Noun","UNKNOWN","2180","To keep them out now, with land so close and inviting - land likely covered with fruit trees and other luxuries they had not known on the open sea - was foolhardy indeed.","",""
"dragon","Noun","UNKNOWN","2181","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.","",""
"mask","Noun","UNKNOWN","2182","For Jill, her face was a mask of paint and false smiles.","",""
"handmaiden","Noun","UNKNOWN","2183","They entered quietly through a side door of the west wing, proceeding to the guest quarters, which were empty; save a pair of handmaidens Baron Bildeborough had put at Connor's bidding.","",""
"unable","Adjective","UNKNOWN","2184","His spirit drifted out of the room, unable to bear any more of the sacrilegious talk.","",""
"relent","Verb","UNKNOWN","2185","And Connor would not relent, prodding and pushing.","",""
"attacker","Noun","UNKNOWN","2186","The would be attacker skidded to an abrupt stop, recognizing the man.","",""
"foolhardy","Noun","UNKNOWN","2187","He knew that it was foolhardy for him to go out, but how could he not?","",""
"cautiously","Adverb","UNKNOWN","2188","Pellimar reached the drifting boat first, pulling himself cautiously up its slick, rounded side.","",""
"wail","Noun","UNKNOWN","2189","Oh, my Jill!"" Avelyn wailed, rushing to her.","",""
"increasingly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","2190","Even the extra privileges did little to improve the mood of the increasingly surly crew.","",""
"blame","Verb","B2","2191","The crew were blaming the monks for their discomfort, for this whole journey.","",""
"outline","Noun","UNKNOWN","2192","Under the light of a half moon, he saw the outline of the Windrunner gliding out into the bay.","",""
"spine","Noun","UNKNOWN","2193","A shudder coursed down Avelyn's spine.","",""
"regret","Verb","UNKNOWN","2194","He had done well this day, though he regretted having to slay the bear.","",""
"philosophy","Noun","UNKNOWN","2195","He considered them in relationship to the entire elven philosophy of life, the oneness.","",""
"cavalry","Noun","UNKNOWN","2196","Out from the gaps in the line came the next surprise, a goblin cavalry, the diminutive creatures astride shaggy ponies.","",""
"commander","Noun","UNKNOWN","2197","Perhaps he was trying to be the levelheaded commander, but to Jill, it came off as condescending.","",""
"ravine","Noun","UNKNOWN","2198","At the bottom of the ravine, past a blocking wall of low evergreen bushes, they came to a bed of ferns, bluish green in color.","",""
"gel","Noun","UNKNOWN","2199","The twirling elf tossed several puffs of powder upon the plant, then bent low and with some reddish gel painted a stripe around the base of the stem just an inch or two from the ground.","",""
"archery","Noun","UNKNOWN","2200","None in all the world can match the archery of the Touel'alfar.""

Bradwarden snorted.","",""