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| 1 | lemma | pos | cefr_level | coverage_rank | global_frequency | context_sentence | context_sentence_zh | definition_zh |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | comfort | Verb | B2 | 501 | 23 | Quiet and sweet were the notes, but that did little to comfort Elbryan. | ||
| 3 | threat | Noun | B2 | 502 | 23 | Apparently Quintall and Thagraine's secret posed no threat, so whatever it might be really didn't matter. | ||
| 4 | frustration | Singular | C1 | 503 | 23 | Pony sighed, too, and shook her head as if to show her ultimate frustration with adults. | ||
| 5 | hint | Verb | C1 | 504 | 23 | No answer, no hint, just the murmur, an endless string of mysterious whispers. | ||
| 6 | defensive | Adjective | C1 | 505 | 23 | Jill understood his concern to be both defensive and compassionate. | ||
| 7 | behemoth | Noun | C1 | 506 | 23 | But they hardly seemed to stop the behemoth. | ||
| 8 | sacred | Adjective | C1 | 507 | 23 | To hear his fellow monks speaking of something as sacred as love in such crude terms did surprise and offend him. | ||
| 9 | pack | Noun | A2 | 508 | 22 | When he got there, Juraviel handed him a full pack, a fine knife strapped on one side, a balanced hand axe on the other. | ||
| 10 | blink | Verb | A2 | 509 | 22 | Smealy never blinked and didn't dare look away from the dangerous monk until he was halfway across the deck. | ||
| 11 | height | Noun | A2 | 510 | 22 | A six-foot bear could indeed appear twice that height when angered. | ||
| 12 | square | Verb | A2 | 511 | 22 | The Windrunner veered hard to port, sails filling and pushing the square-rigged caravel on with tremendous speed. | ||
| 13 | guide | Verb | A2 | 512 | 22 | Then he went on, letting his instincts guide him to which stones were the most full of heavenly energy. | ||
| 14 | general | Adjective | A2 | 513 | 22 | The monk was soon again back on the road, riding steadily and making a general course to the north. | ||
| 15 | middle | Noun | A2 | 514 | 22 | Jojonah pointed to a case near to the middle of the room, and motioned for Avelyn to approach it. | ||
| 16 | state | Verb | A2 | 515 | 22 | For the boy who had just witnessed such carnage and loss, the semiconscious state was preferable. | ||
| 17 | knock | Verb | A2 | 516 | 22 | Then back left, then left again, knocking wide the creature's club arm. | ||
| 18 | poke | Gerund | B1 | 517 | 22 | The dactyl's ears were pointed as well, poking up about the demon creature's thin tuft of black hair. | ||
| 19 | hunt | Verb | B1 | 518 | 22 | Next spring, Elbryan would hunt with the adults, the games of his youth left behind. | ||
| 20 | confuse | Verb | B1 | 519 | 22 | When the giant was within one huge stride, Elbryan leaped out, trying to confuse it with sheer savagery. | ||
| 21 | bite | Noun | B1 | 520 | 22 | It wasn't difficult to imagine the power of the creature's bite or the pain of getting free from those nasty teeth. | ||
| 22 | claim | Verb | B1 | 521 | 22 | Elbryan thought on that for a moment, particularly on Juraviel's last claim that the plants were pliable. | ||
| 23 | range | Noun | B1 | 522 | 22 | The conditioning ranged from sleep deprivation to long periods of hunger. | ||
| 24 | fighting | Noun | B1 | 523 | 22 | So he suffered the brutal hours of the day, the fighting in which Quintall almost always bested him. | ||
| 25 | warning | Noun | B1 | 524 | 22 | Would the people of that village have heeded his warnings? | ||
| 26 | shelter | Verb | B2 | 525 | 22 | When the showers arrived, he and his fellow Preparer would be hidden underground, sheltered from the pelting meteors. | ||
| 27 | tease | Verb | B2 | 526 | 22 | Elbryan felt no desire to tease when looking at Pony's lips now. | ||
| 28 | slide | Verb | B2 | 527 | 22 | A grinding sound, the great gates sliding open, brought the young man from his contemplations. | ||
| 29 | trust | Noun | B2 | 528 | 22 | As their friendship deepened, their trust becoming so strong, Avelyn again dared to use the hematite to instruct Jill. | ||
| 30 | monstrous | Adjective | B2 | 529 | 22 | One group in particular, a pile of many monstrous corpses together in the road, posed a curious riddle. | ||
| 31 | opening | Adjective | B2 | 530 | 22 | Elbryan saw an opening and let fly a combination left jab, step, and right cross. | ||
| 32 | tragedy | Noun | B2 | 531 | 22 | Elbryan winced at the reference to the tragedy of Dundalis. | ||
| 33 | pursuit | Noun | B2 | 532 | 22 | Tallareyish turned in pursuit and came forward, one step, left foot. | ||
| 34 | retrieve | Verb | C1 | 533 | 22 | Even if he went and retrieved it, the liquid within the stone had been tainted and was no good. | ||
| 35 | malachite | Verb | C1 | 534 | 22 | Malachite, amber, serpentine, ruby, in that order. | ||
| 36 | mighty | Adjective | A2 | 535 | 21 | Tol had no desire to fight him, had no desire to face the mighty cut of Tempest. | ||
| 37 | cloak | Verb | A2 | 536 | 21 | The elves prodded and pushed him, finally getting him out of his low tree house wearing only a cloak and a loincloth. | ||
| 38 | torch | Noun | A2 | 537 | 21 | The room inside was well lit, though Avelyn saw no torches and didn't smell the usual odor of burning wood. | ||
| 39 | sparkle | Noun | A2 | 538 | 21 | Elbryan didn't answer, but that familiar sparkle fit up his eyes. | ||
| 40 | thinking | Noun | A2 | 539 | 21 | A combination of strength and agility, a balanced, thinking warrior. | ||
| 41 | case | Noun | A2 | 540 | 21 | Jojonah pointed to a case near to the middle of the room, and motioned for Avelyn to approach it. | ||
| 42 | carefully | Adverb | A2 | 541 | 21 | Avelyn scrutinized the broach carefully. | ||
| 43 | aloud | Noun | B1 | 542 | 21 | Jojonah nearly laughed aloud at the spectacle, and held forth the hematite. | ||
| 44 | smooth | Adjective | B1 | 543 | 21 | There were several various stones within, all smooth and polished. | ||
| 45 | fiercely | Adverb | B1 | 544 | 21 | Elbryan tugged more fiercely with his other hand instead, increasing the pace of the roll. | ||
| 46 | directly | Adverb | B1 | 545 | 21 | Shocked back to his senses, Avelyn turned his attention to the high roof directly below him. | ||
| 47 | emotion | Plural | B1 | 546 | 21 | Panic hit him, wrestling hard with a jumble of other emotions that Elbryan did not understand. | ||
| 48 | robe | Noun | B1 | 547 | 21 | Avelyn's brown robes were tattered and dripping; he had the stench of burned hair about him. | ||
| 49 | possibly | Adverb | B1 | 548 | 21 | Elbryan found that he could not possibly maintain such a stance. | ||
| 50 | bother | Verb | B1 | 549 | 21 | What was it about Avelyn that really bothered Siherton? | ||
| 51 | fairly | Adverb | B1 | 550 | 21 | It was fairly circular, perhaps eight feet in diameter. | ||
| 52 | boulder | Noun | B1 | 551 | 21 | Elbryan glanced both ways, then, figuring that the paths converged just the other side of the boulder, went right. | ||
| 53 | openly | Adverb | B2 | 552 | 21 | Not that many humans had ever tasted the elixir, for the elves did not deal openly in the juice. | ||
| 54 | foolish | Adjective | B2 | 553 | 21 | Avelyn retracted his hand a few inches, wondering if he was being a bit foolish here. | ||
| 55 | witness | Verb | B2 | 554 | 21 | For the boy who had just witnessed such carnage and loss, the semiconscious state was preferable. | ||
| 56 | bellow | Verb | B2 | 555 | 21 | It bellowed again and hardly slowed. | ||
| 57 | steadily | Adverb | B2 | 556 | 21 | Shane McMichael did not argue the point, though the weight of it grew steadily on his shoulders. | ||
| 58 | foe | Noun | B2 | 557 | 21 | Elbryan didn't know what to make of this armored foe, and especially of its glowing spike. | ||
| 59 | reveal | Verb | B2 | 558 | 21 | The pair looked at Viellain, their expressions revealing much. | ||
| 60 | sunstone | Noun | UNKNOWN | 559 | 21 | The monk quickly took out his yellow sunstone, falling immediately into its defensive magic. | ||
| 61 | rockman | Noun | UNKNOWN | 560 | 21 | The turn cost the rockman another sting as Elbryan seized the moment and thrust ahead, Tempest cutting hard. | ||
| 62 | kingdom | Noun | C1 | 561 | 21 | Even the children of the Alpinadoran frontier - and most of the still - wild kingdom was considered frontier! | ||
| 63 | beam | Gerund | C1 | 562 | 21 | The girl pushed hard, but the beam would not give. | ||
| 64 | swift | Adjective | A2 | 563 | 20 | Hopefully we will be able to keep our pace swift enough so that the powries' initial ram causes little damage. | ||
| 65 | sweet | Adjective | A2 | 564 | 20 | Quiet and sweet were the notes, but that did little to comfort Elbryan. | ||
| 66 | scene | Noun | A2 | 565 | 20 | The starkness of the scene from this vantage point, in this mounting light, amazed the companions. | ||
| 67 | knowledge | Noun | A2 | 566 | 20 | The large man's knowledge of goblins simply didn't reconcile with this sight before him. | ||
| 68 | whole | Adjective | A2 | 567 | 20 | The crew were blaming the monks for their discomfort, for this whole journey. | ||
| 69 | support | Verb | A2 | 568 | 20 | Brother Justice grabbed hard onto the staff with both hands, as much to support himself as to prevent any attacks. | ||
| 70 | refuse | Verb | A2 | 569 | 20 | The elf offered a hand, but Elbryan stubbornly refused, struggling shakily to his feet. | ||
| 71 | shout | Noun | A2 | 570 | 20 | Elbryan fell back behind the twin pines, catching the shout in his throat, gasping for breath. | ||
| 72 | squarely | Adverb | A2 | 571 | 20 | Then Avelyn eyed Tol squarely, matching the man's ominous expression with one of pure excitement. | ||
| 73 | gem | Noun | A2 | 572 | 20 | If the man, like his crew, was so obviously nonreligious, then he should not possess such a gem, not for any reason. | ||
| 74 | thunder | Gerund | A2 | 573 | 20 | Another shot came thundering in, this one scoring a hit on Pireth Tulme's front wall, taking down some stones. | ||
| 75 | shining | Adjective | B1 | 574 | 20 | Its limbs were slender and long and its armor a silver shining coat of fine interlocking links. | ||
| 76 | excitement | Noun | B1 | 575 | 20 | Indeed he was tired from the previous day's labors, but so full of excitement that. | ||
| 77 | confirm | Verb | B1 | 576 | 20 | Quintall neither denied nor confirmed the execution. | ||
| 78 | parry | Noun | B1 | 577 | 20 | Strike, parry, strike - the same routine. | ||
| 79 | loss | Noun | B1 | 578 | 20 | For the boy who had just witnessed such carnage and loss, the semiconscious state was preferable. | ||
| 80 | silent | Adjective | B1 | 579 | 20 | The elves, of course; had little trouble keeping ahead of him, silent and out of sight. | ||
| 81 | survive | Verb | B1 | 580 | 20 | And to the young man who had somehow survived a goblin raid, such a conclusion meant it could only be one thing. | ||
| 82 | forearm | Noun | B1 | 581 | 20 | Another arrow came by and slashed across Elbryan's forearm as he struggled. | ||
| 83 | ignore | Verb | B1 | 582 | 20 | To his credit, Elbryan had pretty much learned to ignore them. | ||
| 84 | zombie | Noun | B1 | 583 | 20 | But when he came up from the roll, the zombie was there, suddenly, magically. | ||
| 85 | extend | Verb | B2 | 584 | 20 | Avelyn's hands were large indeed, yet even with his fingers fully extended he could not touch all edges of the stone. | ||
| 86 | weakness | Noun | B2 | 585 | 20 | Did the dactyl bring the weakness, the immorality, to humanity? | ||
| 87 | float | Verb | B2 | 586 | 20 | It took great effort for the monk to get the sunken boat raised and floating, but he somehow managed. | ||
| 88 | deeply | Adverb | B2 | 587 | 20 | Elbryan sighed deeply and turned to Pony. | ||
| 89 | minor | Adjective | B2 | 588 | 20 | There were minor points untouched, to be sure. | ||
| 90 | elbow | Noun | B2 | 589 | 20 | Dazed, bleeding, Elbryan pulled himself up to his elbows, looking over the edge of the cairn. | ||
| 91 | declare | Verb | B2 | 590 | 20 | But pragmatism, too, should be part of that pledge, so said Father Abbot Markwart, and so had declared the abbey's. | ||
| 92 | beg | Verb | B2 | 591 | 20 | Something about the comparison, something she could not grasp, tugged hard at her, begging for release. | ||
| 93 | cheek | Noun | B2 | 592 | 20 | A tear rolled down Avelyn's cheek, then another. | ||
| 94 | stocky | Adjective | B2 | 593 | 20 | The short, stocky man went at the martial training as eagerly as Avelyn went at the nighttime studies. | ||
| 95 | basket | Noun | B2 | 594 | 20 | Carefully placing the basket at last at the trough, the boy then sprinted full out the half mile back to the bog. | ||
| 96 | rail | Gerund | B2 | 595 | 20 | Quintall was already at the rail, pointing far out and down. | ||
| 97 | descend | Gerund | C1 | 596 | 20 | The weight of his first kill descended upon him, bowing his shoulders, nearly driving him to his knees. | ||
| 98 | momentum | Noun | C1 | 597 | 20 | Elbryan set his feet and launched a vicious uppercut jab with the staff, using the powrie's momentum against it. | ||
| 99 | curiosity | Noun | C1 | 598 | 20 | The kiss shifted, from curiosity to urgency, then back to gentleness. | ||
| 100 | instinct | Noun | C1 | 599 | 20 | Pony's first instincts were to try and join that battle group, but she quickly surmised that she would never get in. | ||
| 101 | grip | Noun | C1 | 600 | 20 | The giant released its grip and Elbryan fell to the ground. |