"lemma","pos","cefr_level","coverage_rank","context_sentence","context_sentence_zh","definition_zh" "blond","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3301","Jill shook her head, her short shock of blond hair bouncing about.","","" "attendance","Noun","UNKNOWN","3302","It was bad enough that the carriage would roll through every part of the large city, bad enough that more than five hundred people would be in attendance at the church when she and Connor were wed, but the thought of what would come later, after the grand ball ...","","" "gentlemen","Noun","UNKNOWN","3303","After the carnage ride, the newlyweds came to a hall filled with music and drink, with ladies and gentlemen spinning about, twirling and laughing.","","" "suggestion","Plural","UNKNOWN","3304","Elbryan absorbed all their words, sifted through their suggestions.","","" "nightgown","Noun","UNKNOWN","3305","I will do as I please, when I please!"" As if to accentuate his point, he reached over with one hand and tore down the side of Jill's nightgown, pulling it low enough to reveal one of her breasts.","","" "glassy","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3306","CHAPTER 18 The Test of Faith Hour after endless hour, day after endless day, the Windrunner glided lazily across the sparkling glassy surface of the South Mirianic.","","" "emptiness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3307","Some said it was, the work of ghosts, or evil monsters of the deeper waters, but most rational, experienced sailors attributed it to fear and suspicion, to the long days of emptiness and the undeniable feeling that the sea would never end, that the ship would sail and sail until there was no more to eat and no more to drink.","","" "intimacy","Noun","UNKNOWN","3308","The issue of physical intimacy did not come up between them during those weeks, for both of them had found a more special intimacy, far more satisfying.","","" "starboard","Noun","UNKNOWN","3309","""Whale to starboard!"" the lookout cried a moment later.","","" "damnation","Singular","UNKNOWN","3310","""Damnation,"" Avelyn sputtered, and he scrambled with all speed back to the shelter of the cave.","","" "pedal","Noun","UNKNOWN","3311","The dwarves can pedal all day, while most men tire within the hour - or after a couple of hours, at most."" Quintall nodded, his respect for the stoic, tireless enemy redoubled.","","" "cargo","Noun","UNKNOWN","3312","He did not wake up until long after the dawn, his precious cargo intact in his pack.","","" "tarry","Verb","UNKNOWN","3313","Avelyn blanched, so did Thagraine and Pellimar, but Quintall only let out a low growl and tarried his gaze back in the direction of the distant powrie ship.","","" "bound","Noun","UNKNOWN","3314","Avelyn feared that Quintall, in issuing such a clear order, might have overstepped his bounds this time.","","" "tail","Verb","UNKNOWN","3315","But the powries tailed her; the lookout called down repeatedly, his tone growing thick with frustration and fear, that the barrelboat was keeping pace, was even beginning to close a bit.","","" "tread","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3316","Once in the water, Avelyn found Quintall treading high not so far away, half his body clear of the sea.","","" "greasy","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3317","Bunkus Smealy turned his greasy grin on Avelyn, holding one hand up, his thumb and index finger about five inches apart.","","" "crazed","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3318","Half-crazed, his entire world shattered, Avelyn understood.","","" "leaning","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3319","He found Quintall standing with Adjonas, the captain, looking weary, leaning against the mainmast.","","" "provision","Plural","UNKNOWN","3320","Perhaps it was the boredom, the heat, or the tasteless provisions, but the crew grew increasingly uneasy, even hostile.","","" "uneasy","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3321","Avelyn grew uneasy, and then desperate.","","" "ensue","Verb","UNKNOWN","3322","A long moment of silence ensued, all five - the three humans, Juraviel, and Tuntun - feeling the weight of confirmation.","","" "cough","Verb","UNKNOWN","3323","Smealy pulled away, coughing and, predictably, turned to the crew for help.","","" "plea","Singular","UNKNOWN","3324","""We're too far out,"" he said to his captain, his plea sounding as a whine.","","" "lagoon","Noun","UNKNOWN","3325","So they circled, spotting one promising lagoon, and then sailed out to deeper waters for the longest five days of the trip, particularly for Avelyn and Thagraine.","","" "withstand","Noun","UNKNOWN","3326","On board Quintall launched right away into lies about the dangers to the foolish seaman, about how the monks, and the monks alone, were trained to withstand the fury of the showers.","","" "accusation","Singular","UNKNOWN","3327","""Do you think that you belong in Dundalis?"" the man asked bluntly, again the words sounding like an accusation, or a threat.","","" "purplish","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3328","The hundreds of purplish rings converged in the middle of the room.","","" "seal","Verb","UNKNOWN","3329","She heard a commotion far behind and understood that the other giants - probably three or four more, if her count at the previous fight was accurate - had sealed off that end of the gully.","","" "gaping","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3330","Avelyn meant to turn him over, but he could not find his breath when he looked at the fatal wound, a gaping hole smashed right through Thagraine's skull, brain matter splattered all about.","","" "splatter","Verb","UNKNOWN","3331","One fireball hit against the village's east wall, splattering the two men standing nearby with burning pitch.","","" "remnant","Noun","UNKNOWN","3332","Many showed no magical power at all, and Avelyn soon realized that these were the remnants of previous showers, brought up to the surface by the battering of the storm.","","" "egg","Noun","UNKNOWN","3333","He selected an egg-sized hematite next, and then a ruby, small but flawless to his trained eye.","","" "dramatic","Adjective","B2","3334","Only then did Avelyn take the time to note that dramatic change that had come over Pimaninicuit.","","" "unyielding","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3335","Gofflaw growled at her, but under Jill's unyielding glare, he replaced his sword in its sheath.","","" "retain","Noun","UNKNOWN","3336","But his orders concerning Pimaninicuit had been explicit and unyielding: only those stones treated to retain their magic could be brought from the island.","","" "overwhelmed","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3337","Thus, Avelyn simply sat staring outward, too overwhelmed even to eat, and waited for the Windrunner.","","" "grumbling","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3338","Aside from Paulson's typical grumbling, he caught no direction to their conversation.","","" "emerald","Noun","UNKNOWN","3339","At the first town he entered, he happened upon a caravan of several merchant wagons, and there he sold the common emerald, giving him all the funds he would need for a long, long time.","","" "remorse","Noun","UNKNOWN","3340","But to kill without remorse?","","" "supposedly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3341","Avelyn could appreciate their notion of the ""greater good,"" for that would surely be the excuse given, but somehow all of this was out of line with justice, and justice was supposedly among the major tenets of the Abellican Church.","","" "recoil","Verb","UNKNOWN","3342","Avelyn recoiled instinctively, out of shyness.","","" "reduce","Verb","B2","3343","The man would be reduced to an instrument of destruction, Avelyn's destruction.","","" "surrounding","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3344","He didn't quite understand it, nor could he make out the aura of magic surrounding Master Siherton.","","" "suspicious","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3345","Suspicious, but wise enough to keep his mouth shut, Avelyn bid farewell to Adjonas and the others - though not a man aboard the Windrunner regretted the departure of the three monks - and went ashore.","","" "wager","Noun","UNKNOWN","3346","Perhaps he hadn't really done it right, or perhaps Adjonas had ordered her to bed Avelyn, or even had made a wager with her that she could not bed the man.","","" "chapel","Noun","UNKNOWN","3347","Avelyn ran from the chapel, skittering down the empty halls, his footsteps echoing noisily.","","" "creation","Singular","UNKNOWN","3348","He knew the properties of diamonds, the creation of light, but had never used quartz.","","" "hopelessly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3349","He watched helplessly; hopelessly, as the ship that had been his home for nearly eight months jolted and listed, then broke apart on the reef as still more missiles soared in.","","" "ebb","Noun","UNKNOWN","3350","The strong ebb tide of All Saints Bay would collect the flotsam and jetsam and carry it out to the open sea.","","" "location","Singular","UNKNOWN","3351","""There can be no witnesses to the location of Pimaninicuit,"" Father Abbot Markwart said evenly.","","" "flatly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3352","""Your master?"" the monk asked flatly.","","" "commit","Verb","UNKNOWN","3353","""She has committed no crimes.","","" "spy","Noun","UNKNOWN","3354","He didn't really know what he would do, other than spy on the masters and confirm his fears of his approaching fate.","","" "auction","Verb","UNKNOWN","3355","They were talking about a private auction of the sacred stones!","","" "rod","Noun","UNKNOWN","3356","She slipped the graphite rod into her sword hand, clutching it tightly against the weapon's hilt, and wondered if her plan would work.","","" "inanimate","Singular","UNKNOWN","3357","Avelyn rolled out of the way; the inanimate stone crashed down and rolled from the dais.","","" "pursuing","Noun","UNKNOWN","3358","With the malachite, he floated gently over cliffs that any pursuing monks would spend hours climbing down.","","" "cone","Noun","UNKNOWN","3359","Spotting him, the great stallion reared and snorted, its breath coming out as a great cone of steam.","","" "definite","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3360","The elf had been searching for Symphony, her desires formulating into a definite plan.","","" "seeming","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3361","He looked much better, seeming his old bouncy self, except for a slight limp.","","" "interpretation","Plural","UNKNOWN","3362","What was, in the horse's eyes, simply was with no interpretation, an efficient and perfect way of perception that sorted through emotion, that lived in the present without concern for the future or interference from the past.","","" "sliver","Noun","UNKNOWN","3363","He stood atop the treeless hillock and he waited, his eyes glued to the eastern horizon, to the tiny sliver of light heralding the approach of dawn.","","" "dasada","Noun","UNKNOWN","3364","Every morning he performed bi'nelle dasada and then his physical conditioning with the milk-stones.","","" "intricate","Verb","UNKNOWN","3365","The young man continued for nearly an hour, his arms and weapon weaving ever more intricate patterns in the empty air.","","" "strategy","Noun","UNKNOWN","3366","Every attack and parry angle became ingrained in him; what had been conscious battle strategy melded into a reactive response or an anticipatory strike.","","" "significance","Noun","UNKNOWN","3367","""You do not even understand the significance,"" Tuntun replied distastefully.","","" "unending","Verb","UNKNOWN","3368","Even Juraviel couldn't suppress a chuckle at his elven companion's unending games.","","" "hence","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3369","How will they judge me twenty years hence, a mere day by an elf's measure?.","","" "initially","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3370","Indeed she had thrived; initially, at least, in the military.","","" "fearsome","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3371","Elbryan smiled wryly at Bradwarden before the fearsome centaur could take offense.","","" "coastline","Noun","UNKNOWN","3372","Pireth Tulme was but one in a series of keeps dotting Honce-the-Bear's coastline.","","" "disastrous","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3373","Jill, whose only experience with a man had been so very disastrous, did not like the odds.","","" "resign","Verb","UNKNOWN","3374","She gave a sigh, resigned to the reality about her.","","" "consistent","Adjective","B2","3375","""A difficult winter would be consistent,"" Tuntun replied, her expression even more grave than usual.","","" "irony","Noun","UNKNOWN","3376","He gave a chuckle at the irony of his own words.","","" "unprepared","Verb","UNKNOWN","3377","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.","","" "aged","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3378","This would be Joycenevial's first human task since Mather, and, since the bowyer was aged even by elven standards, most likely his last.","","" "frond","Noun","UNKNOWN","3379","They walked carefully past the cultivated rows to the tallest fern of - all, one whose broad fronds were above Elbryan's head.","","" "implement","Verb","B2","3380","He recognized the implements of the trapping trade hanging all about the shack, along with dozens of drying pelts.","","" "pliable","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3381","The monsters' take of lumber would not have been useful; the spruce and pines were too short for catapults, too wet and sappy for wood fires, and too pliable for any construction.","","" "encompass","Verb","UNKNOWN","3382","The song came louder, faster, and Juraviel began to dance delicate, spinning circles wrapped in a larger circle that encompassed the plants.","","" "praise","Verb","UNKNOWN","3383","Juraviel praised him once, then started away, Elbryan in tow.","","" "powder","Noun","UNKNOWN","3384","Without explanation, Lady Dasslerond then threw a handful of glittering powder in Elbryan's face.","","" "stripe","Noun","UNKNOWN","3385","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.","","" "scrub","Noun","UNKNOWN","3386","He held Cric back, hiding behind some scrub, while agile Chipmunk worked his way into position.","","" "skyward","Noun","UNKNOWN","3387","He should have been watching the ground, he knew, but in accord with the wistful nature of his kind, his eyes kept lifting skyward to the stars and the mysteries.","","" "demise","Noun","UNKNOWN","3388","In so pointedly reminding Elbryan and the others of the higher goal, the centaur helped them to put Tuntun's demise in proper perspective.","","" "deepen","Verb","UNKNOWN","3389","As their friendship deepened, their trust becoming so strong, Avelyn again dared to use the hematite to instruct Jill.","","" "covering","Noun","UNKNOWN","3390","He moved inside the grove, across the covering of snow to the secret cairn.","","" "tilt","Verb","UNKNOWN","3391","Elbryan tilted back his head, considering the stars, the few rushing clouds.","","" "deceive","Verb","UNKNOWN","3392","They had named the ranger Nightbird, and so the elf's dream had not deceived him.","","" "smoothness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3393","He was amazed by its balance, by the smoothness of its long and comfortable draw.","","" "tied","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3394","A quick tug showed Elbryan that it was tied off a short distance up the ledge.","","" "don","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3395","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","3396","He shook that thought away, shrugged off his cloak, and began donning the clothing: deerskin boots, high arid soft; supple breeches with a narrow belt made of rope lined with silverel for strength; a soft sleeveless shirt with a leather vest lined in silverel; and finally, a thick forest-green traveling cloak and a lighter-green triangular huntsmen's cap.","","" "sparse","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3397","The land was relatively flat and brown, with sparse low shrubs poking here and there.","","" "inspection","Singular","UNKNOWN","3398","He continued his inspection of the mouth and face, noted that the eyes were clear and not runny, then moved along the bear's torso.","","" "territory","Noun","UNKNOWN","3399","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","3400","If that was the case, would he be justified in waging battle with these six?","",""