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| 1 | lemma | pos | cefr_level | coverage_rank | context_sentence | context_sentence_zh | definition_zh |
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| 2 | figuring | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3701 | So Elbryan stood back from it all, figuring it to be one of those dangers for the villagers to work out on their own. | ||
| 3 | guarantee | Verb | B2 | 3702 | His reentry would be guaranteed, but his position as a Preparer - though he had no idea that he would be offered such a position or even that there was such a thing - would be lost. | ||
| 4 | syllable | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3703 | "Your mother has died, boy," he said slowly, accentuating each syllable. | ||
| 5 | sickness | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3704 | She lived on, in sickness, only to see me enter the Order of St.-Mere-Abelle. | ||
| 6 | peacefully | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 3705 | That is the vision that allowed Annalisa Desbris to pass on peacefully from this world." Master Jojonah nodded, seeing the calm and logical reasoning, and at once impressed with, and frightened of, the depth of this young man's faith. | ||
| 7 | offense | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3706 | He bowed his head as soon as he realized that he had just spoken against a master's command, an offense that could lead to exile from the abbey. | ||
| 8 | testament | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3707 | His stubbornness held for many minutes, a testament to the young man's strong willpower. | ||
| 9 | cushiony | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3708 | He considered the gold leaf highlighting the carved hardwood of the room's support beams, the rich rug from some exotic land, the cushiony chairs, the many baubles and trinkets on his vast bookshelf, every one of them worth more gold than a common laborer would make in a year. | ||
| 10 | trinket | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3709 | The sailors cared nothing for this all-important mission, Avelyn realized, beyond their payment of gold - and whatever other trinkets Father Abbot Markwart had included in the bargain. | ||
| 11 | richly | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 3710 | Jojonah glanced around the room again, reminding himself that most of the other masters, even some of the tenth-year immaculates, had chambers more richly adorned. | ||
| 12 | adorn | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3711 | Jojonah glanced around the room again, reminding himself that most of the other masters, even some of the tenth-year immaculates, had chambers more richly adorned. | ||
| 13 | pragmatism | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3712 | But pragmatism, too, should be part of that pledge, so said Father Abbot Markwart, and so had declared the abbey's. | ||
| 14 | altogether | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 3713 | Elbryan dismissed the notion altogether; he was on the eastern edge of the Moorlands by now, not so far from human settlements. | ||
| 15 | stool | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3714 | He went quietly to the service, then skipped his evening meal altogether and went right to his chamber, a five-foot-square cubicle with a single stool, which doubled as a table for Avelyn's candle, and a cot - little more than a flat board and a blanket - that folded down from one wall. | ||
| 16 | farewell | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3715 | Would Annalisa come to say goodbye to her youngest child, or had she already said her farewells to Avelyn in the courtyard outside of St.-Mere-Abelle? | ||
| 17 | leak | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3716 | He felt the first tears leaking from his eyes and tried to deny them. | ||
| 18 | deserving | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3717 | The Abellican Church, the ancient scriptures, promised heaven to those deserving, and who could be more deserving than gentle and generous Annalisa Desbris? | ||
| 19 | generous | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3718 | The Abellican Church, the ancient scriptures, promised heaven to those deserving, and who could be more deserving than gentle and generous Annalisa Desbris? | ||
| 20 | sniffle | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3719 | Still the tears came; every so often his even tone was broken by a sniffle or a sob. | ||
| 21 | compose | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3720 | Finally, after more than an hour, Avelyn composed himself and sat back on the cot, taking several deep breaths to fight away the last of the sobs. | ||
| 22 | splendor | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3721 | Avelyn tried to keep his head bowed, his eyes to the floor, as befitted his lowly station, but he couldn't help notice some of the splendors that surrounded him as he followed Master Jojonah through the winding corridors of the Abbot's Maze, the most private and revered place in all of St.-Mere-Abelle, and one that a first-year novice would certainly not expect to visit. | ||
| 23 | divert | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3722 | None of it diverted Avelyn's attention from the wonders of the place, though he did listen somewhat, fearing to miss any questions directed his way. | ||
| 24 | enwrap | Gerund | UNKNOWN | 3723 | Scenes of the Halo, the heavenly gift, enwrapping all the others, an oval because of the angle at which it was portrayed. | ||
| 25 | unfold | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3724 | And on the way, as Avelyn's eyes scanned, it seemed to him as if the history of the world, of the faith, unfolded to him, the images packed so that one led to another easily, with enough distinction so that each made an impact, however brief, like the flowing of time. | ||
| 26 | distinction | Singular | UNKNOWN | 3725 | Smealy as he had drowned the powrie, without distinction of the fact that the victim this time was not an evil dwarf but a human being. | ||
| 27 | explicit | Adjective | B2 | 3726 | But his orders concerning Pimaninicuit had been explicit and unyielding: only those stones treated to retain their magic could be brought from the island. | ||
| 28 | blasphemous | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3727 | For Avelyn, this was a most sacred mission, the most important duty of the Abellican Church, and to profane it so by indulging in a shipboard orgy, was surely blasphemous. | ||
| 29 | odor | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3728 | The room inside was well lit, though Avelyn saw no torches and didn't smell the usual odor of burning wood. | ||
| 30 | brilliantly | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 3729 | It filled every corner, every crack in every stone, and reflected brilliantly off the glass covers of the many cases set about the room, and off their contents, as well, hundreds and hundreds of polished stones. | ||
| 31 | pretense | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3730 | It was the end, the end of hope, of any pretense of godliness. | ||
| 32 | goodly | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 3731 | "The Ring Stones are the source of all goodly magic," Master Jojonah explained. | ||
| 33 | soil | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3732 | The upheaval was recent, that much was perfectly clear, for the soil on the torn side of the ridge was loose and deep brown, pocked here and there by a root, but with no fresh, aboveground growth. | ||
| 34 | ecstasy | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3733 | There was something most sacred, yet particularly unmysterious, and thus unholy, in all of this, a tingling of ecstasy combined with a slightly foul taste that Avelyn Desbris could not ignore. | ||
| 35 | arcing | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3734 | Elbryan let fly a wide-arcing left hook as he spun back toward the elf. | ||
| 36 | sphere | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3735 | At first he thought them the borders of the known spheres, for he had heard theories of the universe as a series of overlapping, interlocking heavenly spheres, the invisible bubbles that held the layers of stars in place. | ||
| 37 | unlock | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3736 | Jill had never even heard of the magic stones before, let alone used one, but now she felt as if she could handle them fairly well, as if their secrets had been unlocked to her in the blink of an eye. | ||
| 38 | dense | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3737 | It was heavier than Avelyn had expected, quite solid and dense. | ||
| 39 | due | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3738 | "All in your due time," he said softly. | ||
| 40 | tile | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3739 | He marveled at the loose structure of the wood, at the density of the higher room's tile floor. | ||
| 41 | snake | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3740 | From up here: St.-Mere-Abelle appeared as a thick and stretched snake, winding its way along the top of the sea cliff. | ||
| 42 | alien | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3741 | He talked of the humours of the body joining together with the alien humours of the stones to create the seemingly magical reaction. | ||
| 43 | seemingly | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 3742 | He talked of the humours of the body joining together with the alien humours of the stones to create the seemingly magical reaction. | ||
| 44 | induce | Infinitive | UNKNOWN | 3743 | He even compared what had happened to Avelyn with the tablets given to a monk with a stomachache to induce a belch or a fart. | ||
| 45 | instructor | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3744 | His evenings, to his surprise, were most often spent with Tuntun, for the female had been the primary instructor, and friend, of Mather, a man about whom Elbryan desperately wanted to learn more. | ||
| 46 | carrion | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3745 | CHAPTER 6 Carrion Birds She came back to consciousness never expecting to see the wide sky again. | ||
| 47 | lumber | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3746 | She followed it as if in a dream, gingerly reaching up to touch the piece of lumber that had fallen to partially block the hole. | ||
| 48 | listening | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3747 | She settled back and sat very still, listening intently, not even daring to breathe. | ||
| 49 | survivor | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3748 | But nothing else came to her - not the whimper of a survivor, not the whining, grating voice of a goblin, not the guttural grunts of the fomorian giants. | ||
| 50 | guttural | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3749 | But nothing else came to her - not the whimper of a survivor, not the whining, grating voice of a goblin, not the guttural grunts of the fomorian giants. | ||
| 51 | decidedly | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 3750 | They had no idea if that passage down below led anywhere, after all, and the eight-foot leap would be decidedly more difficult coming up the angled walkway. | ||
| 52 | sunlight | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3751 | He found that he believed her, and he walked back out into the sunlight truly relieved, but not in the way that the others, particularly Quintall, could ever have guessed. | ||
| 53 | thickly | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 3752 | Pony only saw a couple from this angle, a goblin and an older woman, but the stench of death hung as thickly in the air as the smoke from the fires. | ||
| 54 | preferable | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3753 | For the boy who had just witnessed such carnage and loss, the semiconscious state was preferable. | ||
| 55 | tearing | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3754 | Elbryan jerked fiercely, once and then again, the tearing jolts straightening the agonized fomorian. | ||
| 56 | crushed | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3755 | Goblins and powries scattered or were crushed beneath the charge, a hundred wild horses stampeding along the ravine. | ||
| 57 | vulture | Plural | UNKNOWN | 3756 | Surely all the world had fallen to ruin; surely all the people were dead, were being pecked and torn by vultures. | ||
| 58 | circling | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3757 | Only the vultures, dozens and dozens, some circling overhead, most on the ground feasting, tearing at skin that had been warm to Pony's touch just the day before, pecking at eyes that had locked with her own, shared gaze and shared thought. | ||
| 59 | peck | Gerund | UNKNOWN | 3758 | Surely all the world had fallen to ruin; surely all the people were dead, were being pecked and torn by vultures. | ||
| 60 | bedraggle | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3759 | Jill was too bedraggled to blush or even to care. | ||
| 61 | span | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3760 | In the span of a few unbelievable minutes, Elbryan's entire world had been thrown down. | ||
| 62 | unbelievable | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3761 | In the span of a few unbelievable minutes, Elbryan's entire world had been thrown down. | ||
| 63 | northernmost | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3762 | Even from this distance, fifty yards from the northernmost point of the village, Elbryan felt in his heart that no one could have survived such a disaster. | ||
| 64 | slack | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3763 | His face ashen, his heart pounding - - but offering no energy to arms that hung slack at his side or to legs that seemed suddenly as if they each weighed a hundred pounds - the young man, feeling very much a little lost boy, walked home. | ||
| 65 | threshold | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3764 | On the charred threshold of one ruin, he saw a tiny corpse, a blackened ball. | ||
| 66 | carralee | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3765 | Carralee Ault, Pony's cousin, Elbryan realized, for she was the only baby in town. | ||
| 67 | timber | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3766 | He pushed aside a timber gingerly, when he heard the remaining roof groan in protest and went down to his knees, peering in. | ||
| 68 | spoon | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3767 | In her hand she clutched her heavy wooden spoon. | ||
| 69 | defiant | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3768 | Soothing sounds, and that made defiant Elbryan panic even more. | ||
| 70 | fondness | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3769 | Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans. | ||
| 71 | bumbling | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3770 | Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans. | ||
| 72 | spade | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3771 | He put his sword in his belt, found a spade; and began to dig. | ||
| 73 | scope | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3772 | He found Thomas Ault and several other men next, and only then did the already weary youngster realize the scope of his task. | ||
| 74 | suffice | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3773 | That would have to suffice. | ||
| 75 | underneath | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3774 | He found a tall pine with low-hanging branches and slipped underneath them into the natural tent. | ||
| 76 | stamen | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3775 | Even Tuntun was impressed by his stamina. | ||
| 77 | career | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3776 | He remembered Mather at the start of the legendary ranger's career, a bumbling boy no more adept and probably not even as resourceful as this Elbryan. | ||
| 78 | adept | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3777 | He remembered Mather at the start of the legendary ranger's career, a bumbling boy no more adept and probably not even as resourceful as this Elbryan. | ||
| 79 | nag | Verb | UNKNOWN | 3778 | Then another thought nagged at the young man, a notion that he had heard this song before, though he could not place it.. | ||
| 80 | fairy | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3779 | The teasing fairy song, remaining at the very edge of his consciousness, led Elbryan on for many minutes. | ||
| 81 | circular | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3780 | It was fairly circular, perhaps eight feet in diameter. | ||
| 82 | dancer | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3781 | But this - " She held her hand out to the revelry, to the half-naked dancer who, as if on cue, tumbled from the table. | ||
| 83 | distaste | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3782 | Avelyn scrunched his face with distaste and disbelief. | ||
| 84 | coarse | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3783 | She knew, as did all the gathering, that there was no possible way she could have stumbled into such a coarse trap had not a bit of magic been worked. | ||
| 85 | candidate | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3784 | For the four chosen Preparers candidates, Avelyn and Quintall, Thagraine and Pellimar - two students from the class of God's Year 815 - life was even more difficult. | ||
| 86 | seamanship | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3785 | Avelyn could not keep up with his three companions in the matters of fighting or seamanship; and in the religious training, the young brother grew more and more frustrated. | ||
| 87 | latitude | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3786 | Elbryan didn't know exactly where Andur'Blough Inninness was located, but he suspected they were somewhere in the northern latitudes of Corona, beyond the Wilderlands border of Honce-the-Bear. | ||
| 88 | variety | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3787 | They learned how to tie ropes in a variety of ways, knots necessary for the many uses aboard a sailing vessel. | ||
| 89 | knot | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3788 | They learned how to tie ropes in a variety of ways, knots necessary for the many uses aboard a sailing vessel. | ||
| 90 | reputed | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3789 | He knew its reputed properties, of course, but he had never attempted to use them. | ||
| 91 | protege | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3790 | For Juraviel's anxiety was clearly etched on his fine features - how could it have been otherwise when he had been speaking to his protégé Elbryan about this very subject not a week's time past? | ||
| 92 | security | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3791 | There was security in that, Avelyn came to realize, but also responsibility. | ||
| 93 | core | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3792 | To see such human frailty in the masters of St.-Mere-Abelle touched the very core of Avelyn's faith. | ||
| 94 | retrieval | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3793 | All that should have mattered was the retrieval of the stones. | ||
| 95 | brightness | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3794 | During the long hours put in at night, not one of the other three came close to him; they were still mired in charting the stars when Avelyn had moved on to the specific humours that caused the "magical" reaction, having already passed through the recognition of the stones by touch as well as sight and the recognition of their potential intensity by their brightness, shape, and hue. | ||
| 96 | daytime | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3795 | The daytime training was not as easy or as inspiring for Avelyn. | ||
| 97 | revelation | Plural | UNKNOWN | 3796 | He found the many prayer rituals boring, even trite, in light of the revelations he was finding every night. | ||
| 98 | sunrise | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3797 | He noted that the sky had turned a funny color, a purplish, rosy hue the likes of which Avelyn had only seen at sunrise or sunset, and then only on the appropriate horizon. | ||
| 99 | noon | Noun | UNKNOWN | 3798 | The boy believed the sun to be in the west, halfway from noon to sunset. | ||
| 100 | frigid | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 3799 | In addition, all four were taught the ways of the sea, spending many hours on a small boat rocking in the waves on the rough, frigid waters of All Saints Bay. | ||
| 101 | barehanded | PastTense | UNKNOWN | 3800 | For the first year, they would study barehanded techniques, punching and grappling. |