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| 1 | lemma | pos | cefr_level | coverage_rank | context_sentence | context_sentence_zh | definition_zh |
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| 2 | skewer | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3801 | Dinoniel himself had come into this cave after the beast, had skewered the dactyl... | ||
| 3 | rotate | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3802 | With a sickening crackle of bone, the creature's head rotated completely around and bowed, examining the second imperfection of its form, a scarred lump under its lower left shoulder blade. | ||
| 4 | scars | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3803 | Pellimar would carry scars forever, but surely he had mended. | ||
| 5 | thro | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3804 | Yet even in its death throes, the dactyl had won the day, using its willpower to bring up the magma from the bowels of Aida. | ||
| 6 | bowel | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3805 | Yet even in its death throes, the dactyl had won the day, using its willpower to bring up the magma from the bowels of Aida. | ||
| 7 | resonating | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3806 | "What man, what elf, will take Dinoniel's place?" the demon asked aloud in its hollow, resonating voice, always seeming on the edge of a thunderous roar. | ||
| 8 | greed | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3807 | The wicked goblins certainly, so full of anger and greed, so delighting in murder and war. | ||
| 9 | warlike | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3808 | And the powries, yes, the powries, the cunning, warlike dwarves of the Julianthes, the Weathered Isles, who hated the humans above all others. | ||
| 10 | drool | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3809 | But he was a letch, a drooling, grabby slob, who took it personally when Jill refused his advances. | ||
| 11 | twilight | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3810 | The twilight of Corona was at hand. | ||
| 12 | sorrow | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3811 | To untwist hearts from grasping sorrow, To offer the promise of the morrow? | ||
| 13 | morrow | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3812 | To untwist hearts from grasping sorrow, To offer the promise of the morrow? | ||
| 14 | waft | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3813 | Hot blood waft steam in night air cold. | ||
| 15 | flower | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3814 | A way goes Nightbird, the forest to greet In springtime sunshine, of Evil no traces, Through flowers and lovers, step measured paces And sleep peaceful lovers, secure. | ||
| 16 | heaviest | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3815 | He grabbed the heaviest wrap he could find and rushed out into the dark and chill air, so anxious that he hardly remembered to close the cabin door behind him. | ||
| 17 | eerily | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 3816 | The small frontier village of Dundalis was quiet and eerily still about him, sleeping off the well-earned weariness that followed every day's hard labor. | ||
| 18 | teen | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3817 | She was in her mid-teens, but had the shapely body of a woman five years older. | ||
| 19 | repair | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3818 | That meant gathering wood and tending the fires, repairing the cabins-which always seemed to need repair! | ||
| 20 | packs | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3819 | The others caught up to the ranger then, Bradwarden - with Juraviel nestled comfortably on his back, the elf tucked between the heavy packs - moving up right beside Elbryan. | ||
| 21 | wolf | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3820 | Somewhere in the distance a wolf howled, and another took up the song, and for Elbryan, the music was sweeter now than ever before, than even in those years he had spent in the enchanted elven forest. | ||
| 22 | expedition | Singular | UNKNOWN | 3821 | This would be the last time he remained behind when the hunters went off on the season's last and most important expedition. | ||
| 23 | comer | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3822 | Elbryan moved up to the comer of the next house, smiling for his cleverness, and peered around. | ||
| 24 | male | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3823 | One time Elbryan had made the mistake of catching Jilseponie without his male companions nearby, and of tugging too hard on her yellow mane to prove the point of his capture. | ||
| 25 | merry | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3824 | He felt as though he could say anything to her, and she wouldn't judge him or make merry of his feelings. | ||
| 26 | outfight | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3825 | She stood straight but not stiff, and could outrun and outfight any of the boys in Dundalis, Elbryan included. | ||
| 27 | distracting | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3826 | Elbryan dismissed all thought of the elves, and each time one of those distracting notions - or any other thoughts from outside this one room - came back to him, he fought it off. | ||
| 28 | richest | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3827 | Her eyes, huge eyes, were the richest and clearest blue Elbryan had ever seen, like great sponges soaking in the sights of the wide world and reflecting Jilseponie's every mood. | ||
| 29 | involuntarily | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 3828 | When Pony's eyes showed sadness, Elbryan felt it in his heart; when they soared with sparkling joy, Elbryan's feet moved involuntarily in dance. | ||
| 30 | reflexively | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 3829 | She reflexively cocked a fist, and Elbryan wisely jumped back. | ||
| 31 | rainbow | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3830 | She remembered that long-ago morning on the tree-covered slope, looking at the sky, at the shining Halo, with its rainbow of colors, its heavenly allure. | ||
| 32 | perceptible | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3831 | It floated through-the chill air, barely perceptible. | ||
| 33 | dell | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3832 | Juraviel let him lead often and corrected him whenever he went wrong - which was not often any longer - and soon the pair came into the low dell called Caer'alfar: Elvenhome. | ||
| 34 | exhilarating | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3833 | It was loud and rushing, exhilarating. | ||
| 35 | spirituality | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3834 | There is more to spirituality than piety, my friend. | ||
| 36 | theirs | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3835 | No, it was his experience and Pony's - theirs alone. | ||
| 37 | shapely | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 3836 | She was in her mid-teens, but had the shapely body of a woman five years older. | ||
| 38 | starkness | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3837 | The starkness of the scene from this vantage point, in this mounting light, amazed the companions. | ||
| 39 | shoe | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3838 | Every time he gazed upon the white carpet, he wanted to take off his shoes and pants and run through it barefoot and bare legged, to feel its softness between his toes and brushing against his shins. | ||
| 40 | assessment | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3839 | "How many thousands must we defeat even to reach its black rocky base?" Elbryan shook his head determinedly, somehow sure his companion's assessment was not correct. | ||
| 41 | elk | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3840 | The hunters would return with carcasses - elk, caribou, or white-tailed deer - slung on shoulder poles, and it seemed to the watching pair as if this hunt had been successful indeed! | ||
| 42 | southeast | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3841 | "The sun is in the southeast," Elbryan reminded Pony, squaring his shoulders as he took command of the situation. | ||
| 43 | squaring | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3842 | "The sun is in the southeast," Elbryan reminded Pony, squaring his shoulders as he took command of the situation. | ||
| 44 | northeast | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3843 | "The hunters approach from the northeast, so all we have to do is keep the sun just behind our right shoulders." It seemed logical enough to Pony, so she. | ||
| 45 | buck | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3844 | He screamed out and tried to buck, the force and dive ahead, arm extended, Tempest leading. | ||
| 46 | stock | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3845 | Expressions ran from excitement to awkward fear to blank amazement as the villagers took stock of the kills, especially the last carcass on the shoulder poles, a smallish humanoid form. | ||
| 47 | flapping | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3846 | She heard the flapping wings, the screams, the dying. | ||
| 48 | greenish | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3847 | The woman shuddered when she considered the mouth, a tangle of greenish-yellow fangs, all crooked but each angled inward. | ||
| 49 | inward | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3848 | "When the eyes of sentries turn inward, When the hearts of men covet, When love is lost to lust. | ||
| 50 | jowl | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3849 | The chin was narrow, but the jowls wide with muscle. | ||
| 51 | wrinkled | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3850 | Elbryan watched the wrinkled' and bent elder, Brody Gentle, by name, though the children usually called him "Body Grabber" in mock horror, teasing him and then running away. | ||
| 52 | contradiction | Singular | UNKNOWN | 3851 | That seeming contradiction had left Elbryan in a quandary. | ||
| 53 | questioning | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3852 | Elbryan noted the curtness of the answer, the elf's crisp, almost sharp tone, and he understood that further questioning would be unwelcome, that he would learn what he must when the elves decided to tell him. | ||
| 54 | myth | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3853 | Goblins were little seen creatures; many considered them more myth than truth. | ||
| 55 | sighting | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3854 | The raid on Dundalis, the sightings of goblins and even giants, the evidence of many, earthquakes to the north of Andur'Blough Inninness - all pointed to the resurgence of the dactyl. | ||
| 56 | intervene | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3855 | When she wouldn't - couldn't - tell him anything about the staff-wielding stranger who had intervened in the inn, the ferocious monk had beaten her again, and now one of her eyes was swollen closed. | ||
| 57 | supper | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3856 | "Better suited for the common house, after a supper of venison stew." 0lwan nodded and the crowd gradually dispersed, one person taking a last, long look at the goblin, which was indeed fast turning gray. | ||
| 58 | disperse | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3857 | But Avelyn's expression of joy, of victory, was short-lived, for the stone could not contain such energy, and it threw it out, dispersed as green smoke into the air, the sheer force of the expulsion throwing Elbryan and Avelyn backward into Pony and Bradwarden, the resulting smoke filling the corridor. | ||
| 59 | sustain | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3858 | Pony couldn't sustain her smile as she watched him go, wondering if she had pushed him a little too hard. | ||
| 60 | simultaneously | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 3859 | The staff connected simultaneously on the sword and the goblin's hand, knocking the weapon from the creature's grasp and launching it a dozen feet away. | ||
| 61 | injure | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3860 | After a moment of shock, the goblins had thrown their spears, injuring one man. | ||
| 62 | goblinkind | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3861 | Next came a discussion, led by Brody Gentle, of goblinkind in general, from the numerous small goblins to the rare and dangerous disfigured fomorian giants. | ||
| 63 | bored | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3862 | Elbryan looked at Pony, who seemed to be growing quite bored by it all, and motioned to the door. | ||
| 64 | qualification | Singular | UNKNOWN | 3863 | The eight years of Avelyn's' pretraining had included only minor instruction in the martial arts, but he had suspected that the physical qualifications of the brotherhood, the ability to fight, would become more prominent once inside the monastery. | ||
| 65 | discount | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3864 | Pony shrugged, not willing to discount the possibility of giants, not after viewing a dead goblin. | ||
| 66 | doubtfully | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 3865 | "How do you know that?" Elbryan asked doubtfully, and his tone seemed to hurt the girl. | ||
| 67 | charmed | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3866 | "Ho, ho, what!" Avelyn howled, charmed by it all. | ||
| 68 | intertwine | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3867 | The horse angled near a second elm, its branches intertwined with the one near the giant, and Elbryan leaped away, running, surefooted, along one rain-slicked limb. | ||
| 69 | visits | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3868 | She had spent the four days of the storm alone - except for the regular visits of Quintall, who never seemed to get enough of her. | ||
| 70 | majority | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3869 | The majority of Tinson's residents slept the day through, preferring the revelry of the night. | ||
| 71 | conquest | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3870 | Images of conquest flooded Quintall's every thought. | ||
| 72 | formal | Adjective | B2 | 3871 | The four monks were on deck when Bunkus Smealy informed them that they would have no formal duties that day, that they might go about their business. | ||
| 73 | certainty | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3872 | Avelyn knew with near certainty that this would be the last time he saw her, and likely the last time he'd see his father, as well. | ||
| 74 | sibling | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3873 | His next youngest sibling was seven years his senior, and so he wasn't really close to any of them. | ||
| 75 | senior | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3874 | His next youngest sibling was seven years his senior, and so he wasn't really close to any of them. | ||
| 76 | illuminated | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3875 | That image, that confirmation, was burned into Avelyn's thoughts as clearly as if it had been painted and magically illuminated on the inside of his eyelids. | ||
| 77 | illness | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3876 | The last few years had been hard on her, one illness after another. | ||
| 78 | selfish | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3877 | The folk of Elkenbrook had never known such a huge gathering of goblins, could not conceive of the notion that the hateful, selfish creatures could ever band together in such numbers. | ||
| 79 | grinding | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3878 | A grinding sound, the great gates sliding open, brought the young man from his contemplations. | ||
| 80 | unified | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3879 | Now the creature saw the time to organize its forces fully; to begin its unified attacks. | ||
| 81 | unintentional | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3880 | Avelyn heard the slaps of wood, the unintentional groans, even an occasional cry from the younger students near the front. | ||
| 82 | frail | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3881 | He couldn't say that to frail Annalisa, he knew. | ||
| 83 | rack | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3882 | But his words hardly seemed to calm Thagraine; quite the opposite, the man, obviously racked with guilt paced all the more furiously, slapping his hands together repeatedly. | ||
| 84 | designs | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3883 | He came up fast on a pair of great bronze doors, inlaid with a myriad of designs and symbols. | ||
| 85 | overlapping | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3884 | Suits of armor of various designs stood as silent sentinels, every type from the overlapping wooden plates of the ancient Behrenese to the strong metal-plate mail designed for Honce-the-Bear's Allheart Brigade, the personal guards of the King - whoever that might be at the moment. | ||
| 86 | figures | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3885 | Elbryan first noticed the ghostly figures moving through the mist as twilight descended. | ||
| 87 | tunic | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3886 | The shorter of the pair wore a light leather tunic and arm shields, metal sleeves hooked over the figure's thumbs and running from wrists to elbow. | ||
| 88 | specially | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 3887 | He had recently commissioned a specially designed saddle from the local leatherworker, and had made no secret that it was for Nightbird, payment for some work the ranger had done for him. | ||
| 89 | interlock | Gerund | UNKNOWN | 3888 | Its limbs were slender and long and its armor a silver shining coat of fine interlocking links. | ||
| 90 | ranking | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3889 | He calmed quickly, though, seeing that all of his classmates were similarly entranced and that the Father Abbot and the other ranking monks seemed not to care. | ||
| 91 | brotherhood | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3890 | I knew the purest contemplation, the release of physical boundaries, the brotherhood with all the universe. | ||
| 92 | idealistic | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3891 | All that the gentle and idealistic young man wanted was to serve God, to foster peace, to heal, and to comfort. | ||
| 93 | hoard | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3892 | To Avelyn Desbris, nothing in all the world, not the treasures of a dragon's hoard, nor the powers of a king, could outweigh that accomplishment. | ||
| 94 | outweigh | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3893 | To Avelyn Desbris, nothing in all the world, not the treasures of a dragon's hoard, nor the powers of a king, could outweigh that accomplishment. | ||
| 95 | quieted | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3894 | CHAPTER 3 The Lingering Kiss Things quieted quickly in Dundalis. | ||
| 96 | troublesome | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3895 | For the adults, the specter of the goblins brought a sobering wariness and then a troublesome distraction. | ||
| 97 | cautious | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3896 | But even the great wound in the monster's belly fast closed, while Quintall's movements became more cautious, more dangerous. | ||
| 98 | rust | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3897 | Pony left Avelyn's side then, rusting to join with Elbryan. | ||
| 99 | counterpart | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3898 | Each of this group nodded respectfully at his younger counterparts as he passed them on the rim; some mentioned that Elbryan's patrols would serve as their vital liaison with the village proper. | ||
| 100 | colder | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3899 | As each day slipped past - the weather growing a bit colder, the wind shifting more to the north - the twenty-five in Elbryan's group perfected their patrol routes. | ||
| 101 | perfected | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3900 | As each day slipped past - the weather growing a bit colder, the wind shifting more to the north - the twenty-five in Elbryan's group perfected their patrol routes. |