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| 1 | lemma | pos | cefr_level | coverage_rank | context_sentence | context_sentence_zh | definition_zh |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | disagreeable | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 4801 | And they were indeed a ragtag band; the best among them, other than Pony, Bradwarden, and Avelyn, was probably unreliable Paulson or the always irritating, disagreeable Tol Yuganick. | ||
| 3 | circlet | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4802 | He took the circlet back from her and set it about her forehead. | ||
| 4 | cleanly | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 4803 | But they had not gotten away cleanly and were forced to separate from the main group. | ||
| 5 | depend | Verb | UNKNOWN | 4804 | "You consider the vision more closely because so many people depend upon you now, because any course you take will draw many others in your wake. | ||
| 6 | haste | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4805 | And with only a few hours of darkness left before him, and without Symphony to take him swiftly, he knew that he must make haste. | ||
| 7 | droplet | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4806 | Elbryan knew not how long the candles would last, how long it would take their heat to melt the snow domes above them, the droplets falling to extinguish the flames. | ||
| 8 | undead | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 4807 | But then the undead thing was there, right before him, propelled by something other than its legs - was there, barely a foot away, its bony fingers clasped about the ranger's throat! | ||
| 9 | sending | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4808 | The ranger got his staff and his arm up to block, but the creature's backhand sweep was too heavy, sending Elbryan tumbling back the other way. | ||
| 10 | shear | Gerund | UNKNOWN | 4809 | Mighty Tempest sheared right through the crystal, and the whole of it blew into dust, shattered a thousand times. | ||
| 11 | pommel | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4810 | He held it up before his admiring gaze, studying the craftsmanship, the gleaming silverel, the magnificent gemstone pommel, the blue, the storm clouds. | ||
| 12 | tendril | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4811 | It was as they had feared the monsters using the occupied towns as base and supply camps while they sent their dark tendrils further south, first in probes, but soon, so Paulson believed, in great numbers. | ||
| 13 | perk | PastTense | UNKNOWN | 4812 | Elbryan perked up his ears, wondering if the monk had been in contact with Uncle Mather. | ||
| 14 | firewood | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4813 | Elbryan, Bradwarden, and Avelyn came upon a group of a dozen goblins chopping firewood, and summarily destroyed them. | ||
| 15 | disposal | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4814 | Indeed, more than two thirds of the human group had gone further to the east, leaving less than forty warriors at Elbryan's disposal, not counting the secretive elves, whose number even the ranger didn't know. | ||
| 16 | violate | Verb | UNKNOWN | 4815 | When Pony met Elbryan more than an hour later, she had to work hard to hide her feelings of guilt, her feelings that she had somehow violated him. | ||
| 17 | playfully | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 4816 | "Ho, ho, what?" Pony said to him playfully, drawing a smile from the monk. | ||
| 18 | wryly | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 4817 | Elbryan smiled wryly at Bradwarden before the fearsome centaur could take offense. | ||
| 19 | harnesses | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4818 | Of mote concern, though, were the powries, taking up their weapons, and the giants from the second catapult, out of their harnesses and with hardly a scratch on them. | ||
| 20 | galloping | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 4819 | Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the galloping charge of Bradwarden, the centaur singing at the top of his considerable voice, waving a huge cudgel as easily as if it were a tiny baton. | ||
| 21 | lolling | Gerund | UNKNOWN | 4820 | And seeing, most of all, the giant, dazed and helpless, up on its elbows, its head lolling about. | ||
| 22 | galloped | PastTense | UNKNOWN | 4821 | He started to call for a retreat, holding Pony back as she galloped up beside him on her strong roan, but then Bradwarden came by, singing again, a rowdy tune, with a growling Chipmunk on his back, daggers in hand. | ||
| 23 | endanger | Verb | UNKNOWN | 4822 | The monk understood the situation up front, understood that Elbryan could not buy him very much more time without endangering many lives. | ||
| 24 | blindly | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 4823 | The burning giant continued on with hardly a thought for the dwarf, running blindly, swatting futilely at the flames. | ||
| 25 | growling | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 4824 | The ominous growling increased tenfold, a hundredfold, deafening Avelyn, blocking the sounds of the dactyl's shrieks. | ||
| 26 | faintly | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 4825 | Pony awakened shortly thereafter, the dulled dawn just beginning, but still the glow from atop the mountain was faintly visible. | ||
| 27 | bedside | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4826 | "'The design was impressive," Elbryan admitted to Belli'mar Juraviel and Tuntun, the elves sitting with the ranger at Avelyn's bedside much later that night. | ||
| 28 | cohesive | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 4827 | That realization struck the big man profoundly; for the first time in many years; he felt like a part of something larger, than himself, a cohesive circle of comrades, of friends. | ||
| 29 | whining | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4828 | The powrie had little love of goblins and found Gothra a pitiful whining creature. | ||
| 30 | trio | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4829 | By the ranger's calculations, the trailing trio would soon be well within the goblin's view. | ||
| 31 | inexorably | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 4830 | Yet another caravan of monsters, laden with engines of war and moving inexorably south, washed those peaceful thoughts from Avelyn's mind. | ||
| 32 | amusement | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4831 | "We will fight you, every mile, every inch!" Again, the amusement. | ||
| 33 | victor | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4832 | "I am with the victor," Quintall assured him. | ||
| 34 | inconvenience | Singular | UNKNOWN | 4833 | "A minor inconvenience and no more," Quintall replied. | ||
| 35 | slamming | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4834 | He let the horse serve as missile instead, rushing in right beside the engaged giant, slamming against the creature as it stooped low in its attempt to get at Paulson. | ||
| 36 | dissuade | Verb | UNKNOWN | 4835 | The question was not meant to dissuade any attack, Elbryan knew in looking at his determined companion, but to logically guide the group in the best possible direction. | ||
| 37 | riderless | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 4836 | The ranger noted, too, that Paulson's riderless mount was close behind them, and while he was glad that the horse had escaped, he was not pleased by the sight. | ||
| 38 | shouts | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4837 | Huge stones splattered in the mud all about him, stripping the branches from the sides of nearby trees, and the shouts of a hundred monsters followed Elbryan out of that valley. | ||
| 39 | receding | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4838 | But those shouts were fast receding, Symphony's great strides outdistancing the pursuit, and sheer luck saw the ranger through the shower of giant-thrown stones. | ||
| 40 | spurt | Verb | UNKNOWN | 4839 | And even worse for the giant than the stabbing, searing pain down low was the wound across its throat, the wound that spurted blood wildly and refused to allow the monster to draw breath. | ||
| 41 | traitor | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4840 | At that moment, the ranger had more immediate problems than some mythical monster hundreds of miles away, for if there was indeed a traitor in their midst, then the threat would increase. | ||
| 42 | compromise | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4841 | No," he decided, his stern tone showing that he would brook no compromise on this point, "we will not cast suspicion on any in our group. | ||
| 43 | impiety | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4842 | The weakness of mankind, the impiety of. | ||
| 44 | means | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4843 | This drink that he always kept handy was no potion of courage but an admission of cowardice, a means for hiding from his own past. | ||
| 45 | cowardice | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4844 | Elbryan knew well that the man had not been ill, and he considered the sudden cowardice truly out of character. | ||
| 46 | precaution | Singular | UNKNOWN | 4845 | And now that we are known, our enemies take precautions, moving about in larger, better-prepared bands. | ||
| 47 | suren | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4846 | Suren that ye're showing him less mercy by letting him live with the terrible thing he's done." "I'll not play judge." "But I will," Bradwarden said firmly. | ||
| 48 | thump | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4847 | Less than ten steps into the woods, he heard a single thump, a centaur's kick against a head propped by a tree trunk, and he knew that it was finished. | ||
| 49 | unarmored | Verb | UNKNOWN | 4848 | Why hadn't he just put Hawkwing to use, shooting arrow after arrow at the spike wielder's unarmored head until the thing fell over dead? | ||
| 50 | significant | Adjective | B2 | 4849 | But neither will we deliver any significant blows. | ||
| 51 | decisive | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 4850 | So we will survive for the time, I believe, but we will do nothing decisive, not here, halfway between the fighting front and the source of the invasion. | ||
| 52 | blackest | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 4851 | What clouds are these that so cover our heads, blacker than the blackest storm? | ||
| 53 | warfare | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4852 | The remaining band would cease its hit-and-hide warfare and concentrate on getting all the folk to safer points in the south, trying to parallel the advancing army without engaging it. | ||
| 54 | budding | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 4853 | Just out of sight of the encampment, the small group came upon a party of elves - there might have been five - or there might have been twenty, so fleeting were their glimpses of the ever-elusive sprites - dancing amid the budding branches of several trees. | ||
| 55 | unhinder | Verb | UNKNOWN | 4854 | The goblins did indeed send out another pair of scouts, and these two moved unhindered through the woods, then went back to the main group reporting no sign of their missing eight companions. | ||
| 56 | plod | Gerund | UNKNOWN | 4855 | Satisfied as End-o'-the-World was left behind, the beast turned northward, thinking to swoop low over the newest caravan plodding south, to encourage its minions and to strike fear in their hearts all at once. | ||
| 57 | idly | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 4856 | Elbryan could not watch idly, of course, and as soon as Hawkwing came up, the others realized that the time for action was upon them. | ||
| 58 | amazingly | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 4857 | She crossed over Elbryan, the ranger engaged with sword now, battling a line of goblins and, amazingly, driving them back. | ||
| 59 | keeping | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 4858 | She crossed over the goblins, scrambling high and keeping quiet, until she was, at last, directly above the huddled group of prisoners. | ||
| 60 | clump | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4859 | He settled for a clump of birch trees, throwing his body into their midst as he threw his mind into the hematite he tightly clutched. | ||
| 61 | holds | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4860 | Determined, purposeful, the centaur pounded along the mountain trails, hooves digging firm holds and propelling him and his all-important passenger mightily. | ||
| 62 | murders | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4861 | For all the misery its army caused, for all the death and agony, Bestesbulzibar had not truly participated, other than the murders of a few upstarts or incompetents within its own ranks. | ||
| 63 | stooge | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4862 | "You will grow accustomed to your new body, my stooge, my general," the dactyl teased, "my assassin. | ||
| 64 | stony | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4863 | The closest two columns stretched out their stony arms, broke through the inanimate stone holding fast their legs, and started the monk's way. | ||
| 65 | foolishness | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4864 | "What foolishness is that?" the monk protested. | ||
| 66 | illumination | Singular | UNKNOWN | 4865 | Now the fire was no more than embers, their orange glow casting faint illumination over the resting forms of the humans, the light seeming appropriate for the rhythmic breathing of the sleeping folk. | ||
| 67 | afterlife | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4866 | There is no afterlife for a miserable wretch such as thee! | ||
| 68 | overmatch | Verb | UNKNOWN | 4867 | Juraviel fought valiantly, but he was overmatched. | ||
| 69 | impromptu | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4868 | The animals do not fear us, do not respect our weapons or our cunning." Elbryan rested back against the diagonal tree root in this impromptu room of Oracle, digesting his own words. | ||
| 70 | otherworldly | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 4869 | What he did know was that the, demon dactyl was searching for him; for them, sending its otherworldly vision out far and wide. | ||
| 71 | diabolical | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 4870 | He ordered her to the left, toward the giant without the glowing spike, for he sensed that the spike held some diabolical power. | ||
| 72 | trudge | Gerund | UNKNOWN | 4871 | Toward it they went, trudging on, plowing through the heavy ash. | ||
| 73 | snored | Verb | UNKNOWN | 4872 | As if on cue, the snoozing monk rolled over and snored loudly. | ||
| 74 | dent | Gerund | UNKNOWN | 4873 | The arrow hit solidly, denting the armor plate and driving through, but not so deep as to cause any serious wound. | ||
| 75 | ramming | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4874 | Three quick strides later, the centaur was upon the giant, ramming hard into the behemoth's back. | ||
| 76 | sober | Verb | UNKNOWN | 4875 | But now the sobered monk remained silent and uncomplaining. | ||
| 77 | drops | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4876 | Elbryan stumbled back up the slope, wriggling away, and turned to see Quintall clutching at his molten eyes, drops of hot magma glowing on his cheek. | ||
| 78 | peak | Verb | UNKNOWN | 4877 | But in this particular region, with the trail cutting between two such peaks and thus bringing the climbers nowhere near the top, the going remained steady and fairly easy. | ||
| 79 | gully | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4878 | Halfway along the trail through the gully, an ominous and familiar orange glow appeared | ||
| 80 | menacingly | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 4879 | He came up in a dash, to the side and not straight ahead, and Pony, trusting him, charged out from his wake, waving her sword menacingly, drawing the spike wielder's attention. | ||
| 81 | forcing | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4880 | Pursuit was close and fast, forcing the tired companions to stay at full speed. | ||
| 82 | teem | Gerund | UNKNOWN | 4881 | The dactyl hesitated at the sight, at the stone aglow with teeming magic. | ||
| 83 | wrath | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4882 | The rockman moved closer and Bestesbulzibar lifted from the ground, hooking its powerful legs about Quintall, and then speeding the instrument of its wrath across the valley, above the heads of the cowering minions, and back to Aida. | ||
| 84 | sulfuric | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 4883 | Even from this great height, Elbryan and Pony could feel the intense heat, and the sulfuric stench was nearly overwhelming. | ||
| 85 | armband | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4884 | He took the green armband from his right arm, the one the elves said would defeat any poison, and tore it in two, handing one strip to Pony. | ||
| 86 | dripping | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 4885 | Tuntun flew away, back up toward the combatants, her slender daggers in hand, both dripping magma from Quintall's eyes. | ||
| 87 | whack | Verb | UNKNOWN | 4886 | Avelyn tried to whack with Tempest, but the demon understood the power of the ranger sword and would not allow the monk to bring it to bear. | ||
| 88 | grate | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4887 | The others followed without delay, and their hopes mounted when they came to a heavy grate, bars set floor to ceiling, blocking the passage. | ||
| 89 | swishing | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 4888 | Then, even worse for the fomorian, it got a swishing torch across the face as its partner tried to catch up to the scrambling ranger. | ||
| 90 | spew | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4889 | It came up fast through the hole in the floor at the side of the dais, rushed past the flowing lava quickly, spewing the red stone all about. | ||
| 91 | electricity | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4890 | The demon's arms shot forward, fingers extended, and black tendrils of crackling electricity spouted from them, biting against the wall and running the length of the straight passage, nipping and snapping at Elbryan and Avelyn, at Pony and Bradwarden as they followed their friends around the bend. | ||
| 92 | repertoire | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4891 | He considered his repertoire, wondered what stone magic would prove most effective against the beast, then went with what he had in hand, his graphite. | ||
| 93 | millennia | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4892 | Bestesbulzibar was confused, had not seen such a display of anti-magic in all its millennia of life. | ||
| 94 | archway | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4893 | Up ahead, the corridor widened, like the top half of an hourglass, and then ended in a wall, broken only by a large archway, through which the demon dactyl scrambled. | ||
| 95 | budge | Gerund | UNKNOWN | 4894 | He did see Bradwarden, slamming repeatedly, stubbornly, at the doors, not budging them in the least. | ||
| 96 | stalagmite | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4895 | And so it seemed to be, as the stones and the three friends fell far away - a hundred feet, at least, two hundred-toward a floor of jagged stalagmites. | ||
| 97 | conduit | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4896 | Avelyn growled low and called to God, begging for more energy, channeling it, as pure a conduit of godly might as ever had stood upon Corona. | ||
| 98 | impetuous | Adjective | C1 | 4897 | Their fathers, who had come forward to meet the impetuous children, to scold them again for being so far away from Dundalis, let the opportunity pass. | ||
| 99 | empathy | Noun | C1 | 4898 | Elbryan forced himself to stay away from such vivid empathy, realizing that he could easily lose himself in utter despair. | ||
| 100 | skeptical | Adjective | C1 | 4899 | Even skeptical Master Siherton, whatever reservations he continued to hold about Avelyn as a fellow human being, had to admit that the man was the obvious choice, the God-given choice, for Pimaninicuit. | ||
| 101 | relinquish | Verb | C1 | 4900 | This man was tough, admirably so, and Jojonah feared he would die from the beatings before he would relinquish his identity. |