"lemma","pos","cefr_level","coverage_rank","context_sentence","context_sentence_zh","definition_zh"
"pounding","Noun","UNKNOWN","3801","And through it all, barehanded and with weapons, they would square off against each other, pounding on each other relentlessly.","",""
"mutual","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3802","There was supposed to be no anger toward an opponent, only respect and mutual learning, but Quintall growled whenever the masters paired him against Avelyn.","",""
"superiority","Noun","UNKNOWN","3803","He stood with an air of superiority, posture perfect, hand on gilded rapier.","",""
"serpent","Noun","UNKNOWN","3804","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","UNKNOWN","3805","The slips had become too common; Avelyn honestly believed Quintall meant to eliminate the competition.","",""
"goose","Noun","UNKNOWN","3806","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","3807","Perhaps this training was not so far removed from the nighttime training, which Avelyn considered more important.","",""
"cocky","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3808","Who might this leader of the herd be to inspire such uncharacteristic respect from cocky Bradwarden?","",""
"vague","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3809","Master Jojonah's instructions were vague at best, but Avelyn came to understand them in his heart.","",""
"twinkle","Noun","UNKNOWN","3810","Soon the sky was clear above him, the first stars twinkling into view.","",""
"pet","Noun","UNKNOWN","3811","""The war goes well, my pet,"" the dactyl went on.","",""
"awe","Noun","UNKNOWN","3812","But the quiet awe.","",""
"factor","Noun","UNKNOWN","3813","Was their mission the overriding factor here, for if they attacked and were beaten back, killed, or captured, then who would go on to the smoking mountain to stand against the demon dactyl?","",""
"ascension","Noun","UNKNOWN","3814","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","3815","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","3816","""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","3817","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","3818","""Not a test, but a show,"" Jojonah argued, * unintentionally lifting his voice.","",""
"upraise","Verb","UNKNOWN","3819","Finally, Father Abbot Markwart halted the conversation with an upraised hand.","",""
"awestruck","Verb","UNKNOWN","3820","From the trees behind Elbryan, Pony and Avelyn watched awestruck.","",""
"chrysotile","Noun","UNKNOWN","3821","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","3822","Avelyn considered the sight from two widely disparate viewpoints.","",""
"nonetheless","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3823","Nonetheless, Jojonah began to protest again, but Markwart cut him short.","",""
"gleam","Noun","UNKNOWN","3824","Father Abbot Markwart appeared wickedly intense, the gleam in his eyes seeming almost maniacal, and certainly frightening.","",""
"thrum","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3825","The ruby was thrumming in his hand, its magic intense and straining for release.","",""
"heartfelt","Noun","UNKNOWN","3826","Father Abbot Markwart burst out into the most heartfelt laughter Avelyn had ever heard.","",""
"ridgeline","Noun","UNKNOWN","3827","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","3828","""West,"" Elbryan decided after studying it for a moment, his instincts, his internal directional sense, sorting things out.","",""
"buffet","Verb","UNKNOWN","3829","Cold winds and stinging spray buffeted the crew.","",""
"unmoving","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3830","Elbryan looked down the slope curiously, just the few feet to the unmoving mist.","",""
"chime","Verb","UNKNOWN","3831","Somehow he knew the speaker was not human, that no human voice could chime so sweetly, so perfectly.","",""
"supple","Noun","UNKNOWN","3832","This creature's limbs didn't look skinny, any more than did the supple branches of a bending willow.","",""
"bending","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3833","This creature's limbs didn't look skinny, any more than did the supple branches of a bending willow.","",""
"plainly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3834","The way the words were spoken, however plainly and without any apparent deception allowed Elbryan to relax somewhat.","",""
"deception","Singular","UNKNOWN","3835","The way the words were spoken, however plainly and without any apparent deception allowed Elbryan to relax somewhat.","",""
"shimmer","Noun","UNKNOWN","3836","It was as if the being shone of its own accord, an inner light making the flowing hair glow and shimmer.","",""
"relative","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3837","Juraviel had a response for that, a remark concerning the relative unpreparedness of Dundalis in the face of such knowledge.","",""
"equip","Verb","UNKNOWN","3838","Thus was Brother Justice equipped to find and destroy Avelyn.","",""
"destroying","Noun","UNKNOWN","3839","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","3840","Am I goblin or fomorian?"" Juraviel asked calmly, that melodic voice alone destroying any possible comparisons to the croaking and growling monsters.","",""
"strode","Noun","UNKNOWN","3841","Boldly the monk strode forward, stepped up on the leading wall of obsidian, and forward, too, went his magical shield, stealing the demon's heat.","",""
"shallow","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3842","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","3843","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","3844","Elbryan realized the arrogance of that notion, an almost sinful pride,.","",""
"impulse","Noun","UNKNOWN","3845","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.","",""
"exaggerated","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3846","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.","",""
"widening","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3847","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.","",""
"unpleasant","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3848","The ranger quickly removed his clothes, the grass feeling scratchy but not unpleasant to his feet.","",""
"likeness","Noun","UNKNOWN","3849","Twin rows of massive columns, each carved into the likeness of a giant warrior, lined the room.","",""
"peril","Noun","UNKNOWN","3850","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","3851","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","3852","He spent the remainder of the afternoon caught up in the sights and smells.","",""
"going","Noun","UNKNOWN","3853","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","3854","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","3855","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","3856","His direction chosen, he started off, determined to find the singer.","",""
"oak","Noun","UNKNOWN","3857","Juraviel found him at dawn, curled in a hollow at the base of a wide oak.","",""
"unanswered","Verb","UNKNOWN","3858","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","UNKNOWN","3859","I had ascended from this temporary existence, from a place of constant change to a place of eternity.","",""
"breech","Noun","UNKNOWN","3860","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","3861","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","3862","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","3863","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!","",""
"reed","Noun","UNKNOWN","3864","Parting one patch of reeds, the boy found his first stone of the day, bobbing low in the water.","",""
"flavored","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3865","When he squeezed them, extracting the now-flavored liquid, the elves would inevitably complain about how little he had collected.","",""
"ironically","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3866","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","3867","those silken elven strands, which, Elbryan found out soon enough, could be made as sticky and clingy as a spiderweb.","",""
"loaded","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3868","He got his reward for his morning's toils when he returned to the bog to collect the tenth loaded basket.","",""
"impossible","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3869","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","3870","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","3871","- and had cleverly covered it with a layer of dirt and fallen leaves, supported by a trellis of woven sticks.","",""
"woven","Noun","UNKNOWN","3872","Into the spike, the beast sent its vision, the telltale tracings of human-woven magic.","",""
"phony","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3873","He would have leaped clear of the phony, only to drop heavily into the real one.","",""
"dimension","Plural","UNKNOWN","3874","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.","",""
"fletchings","Noun","UNKNOWN","3875","A long arrow protruded from its back, an arrow with fletchings familiar to the woman.","",""
"clothe","Verb","UNKNOWN","3876","Not a sound came from about the beast as, clothing and all, the dactyl devoured the torn skin of Gothra.","",""
"cowards","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3877","Are you cowards, then?","",""
"mess","Noun","UNKNOWN","3878","It struck the bowl of stew, overturning it and making a mess of the meal.","",""
"miserably","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3879","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","3880","He wheeled, but Tuntun turned with him, staying behind him and punching out a veritable drum roll on his upper back.","",""
"indignantly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3881","""He fights like a human,"" Tuntun answered indignantly.","",""
"porous","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3882","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","3883","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","3884","The monk snarled in defiance and kicked at the heavy door.","",""
"finality","Noun","UNKNOWN","3885","""It was God's will,"" Markwart said with finality.","",""
"angling","Noun","UNKNOWN","3886","Juraviel took full advantage, put Elbryan off balance and kept on twisting, angling the boy over the trough.","",""
"illogic","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3887","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","3888","Jojonah closed his eyes and remembered all the times Siherton had warned him about Avelyn's almost inhuman dedication.","",""
"substitute","Gerund","UNKNOWN","3889","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","3890","Juraviel, lighter and smaller, had put him down with astounding ease, a simple movement for which Elbryan had no counter.","",""
"gangly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","3891","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","3892","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","3893","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","3894","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.","",""
"customer","Noun","UNKNOWN","3895","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","3896","He was a worker, a true frontiersman.","",""
"ample","Adjective","UNKNOWN","3897","They were about the same height, but Tol, with his barrel-like torso and ample belly, was heavier.","",""
"suitor","Noun","UNKNOWN","3898","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","3899","Pettibwa just had an unrivaled love of life and of other people.","",""
"accent","Noun","UNKNOWN","3900","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.","",""