booking/the-demon-awakens/beginner/raws/the-demon-awakens-beginner-words-part-44.csv

1	lemma	pos	cefr_level	coverage_rank	context_sentence	context_sentence_zh	definition_zh
2	disarming	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4301	"I am hunting a dangerous fugitive, one who employs the magic of the stones," he explained, turning back to the merchant, a disarming look on his face.
3	rousing	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4302	On they charged, Bradwarden singing a rousing song and Chipmunk forcing away his tears, locking them behind a wall of sheer anger.
4	naught	Noun	UNKNOWN	4303	But fruits and berries are naught but ticklings.
5	droppings	Verb	UNKNOWN	4304	A hoofprint or me droppings?
6	bearded	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4305	"Ye'll have a tougher time with that one," Bradwarden remarked, lifting his bearded chin toward Tol Yuganick, who was still standing in the small field, looking none too happy.
7	sly	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4306	And," he paused and offered a sly wink, "don't ye fear, for I'm not overly fond o' human flesh." "You have tasted it then?" Elbryan reasoned, not taking the bait.
8	overly	Adverb	UNKNOWN	4307	Brother Avelyn was not overly concerned when he returned to his room to find that Jill was not about.
9	differ	Verb	UNKNOWN	4308	In Pireth Tulme, even the winter was one long gray sheet of clouds and cold rain, differing from the summer only in terms of temperature.
10	kinship	Noun	UNKNOWN	4309	Jill had taken the image of the mad friar back with her, could hear his words still, and found in them a kinship to that which lay in her own heart.
11	activity	Noun	UNKNOWN	4310	She could see the activity on the deck of the sailing ship now, small forms darting this way and that, tacking hard to put the large caravel in between the bay's many sentry stones.
12	scoring	Noun	UNKNOWN	4311	Another shot came thundering in, this one scoring a hit on Pireth Tulme's front wall, taking down some stones.
13	parapet	Noun	UNKNOWN	4312	Jill dodged easily, then kicked out behind the flying weapon, just nicking the powrie on the back but solidly enough so the overbalanced dwarf fell from the parapet eight feet to the ground below.
14	crotch	Noun	UNKNOWN	4313	Gothra stared down at the line of blood running from forehead to crotch, then looked back at the demon.
15	sheathed	Noun	UNKNOWN	4314	Jill sheathed her sword instead, pulled her belt off, and leaped out from the wall, beyond the climbing dwarf.
16	havoc	Noun	UNKNOWN	4315	If she could get across the deck to the stern catapult or more particularly, to the cauldrons of pitch and the firepit near the catapult, then she might be able to cause more than a little havoc.
17	deserting	Noun	UNKNOWN	4316	He could hardly believe that Bradwarden would so leave their friends behind, deserting the pair in so perilous a situation.
18	evade	Noun	UNKNOWN	4317	With a howl, it finally let go, scrambling about to evade the jabbing dagger.
19	jabbing	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4318	With a howl, it finally let go, scrambling about to evade the jabbing dagger.
20	mischief	Noun	UNKNOWN	4319	She turned to the catapult, its arm low and ready to fire, then looked at the vats of burning pitch, wondering what mischief she might cause.
21	capstan	Noun	UNKNOWN	4320	She kicked over the pitch barrels, spilling one onto the capstan that held the anchor line and knocking another down the stairs to the lower main deck.
22	conspicuous	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4321	She tried to straighten her still-damp clothes, but realized that she would be conspicuous indeed to any, walking as she was without boots, and without the dirtied, calloused feet of a peasant woman.
23	stories	Verb	UNKNOWN	4322	The man rambled on and on, telling mostly stories of his dealings with the various monasteries of Honce-the-Bear, even with St.
24	precede	Verb	UNKNOWN	4323	Perhaps word of the disaster had preceded her.
25	foaming	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4324	She found a tavern, its sign too worn for her even to make out the name, though the image of a foaming mug was clear enough.
26	estimate	Noun	UNKNOWN	4325	Estimates of the enemy force ranged from a thousand warriors to a thousand ships full of warriors.
27	swig	Noun	UNKNOWN	4326	He reached into a pocket of his robe and produced a small flask, popping the top and sucking a huge swig.
28	confide	Verb	UNKNOWN	4327	"I am Brother Avelyn Desbris, formerly of St.-Mere-Abelle," he confided, and Jill understood she was probably the first person he had told his true name in a long, long time.
29	oppose	Verb	UNKNOWN	4328	In these general rows, as opposed to the occasions when all in the bar teamed up against the monk, Avelyn more than held his ground.
30	holler	Gerund	UNKNOWN	4329	The huge bear of a man tossed his attackers with ease, punched and twisted deftly, hollering "Ho, ho, what!" every time he felled another.
31	raging	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4330	It wasn't until they had exited the tavern, the fight raging still, that Avelyn suddenly stopped and looked at his beautiful companion a most curious expression on his face.
32	intimate	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4331	Juraviel's tone intimated something more profound to the ranger, that not only was there a mere place for shelter, but a very special place indeed.
33	wheeze	Gerund	UNKNOWN	4332	Are you prepared for such a joining?" "I hardly think you are in condition - " "Not physically, oh no, not that!" Avelyn quickly corrected, wheezing out a laugh despite his obvious agony.
34	user	Noun	UNKNOWN	4333	With practice, and more joinings, she could quickly rival all but the most powerful stone users of St.-Mere-Abelle - and all because of this simple technique.
35	sheepishly	Adverb	UNKNOWN	4334	He was sitting upright now, smiling sheepishly, the cloud of pain and death gone from his plump features.
36	deserter	Noun	UNKNOWN	4335	All of that was, of course, tempered by her realization that she was, in effect, a deserter.
37	complicate	Verb	UNKNOWN	4336	Up here, Jill was Cat-the-Stray again, a younger girl in a world less complicated, with feelings less confusing.
38	lazy	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4337	She spent all night watching the stars, the gentle drift of Sheila, the occasional lazy cloud.
39	garnet	Noun	UNKNOWN	4338	CHAPTER 29 Of Singular Purpose They gave him but two stones: a smooth yellow-hued sunstone and a cabochon garnet, a carbuncle, the deepest shade of red.
40	mare	Noun	UNKNOWN	4339	He set out from the abbey one dark and dreary morning, riding an ash-gray mare, not swift of hoof but long in heart.
41	efficiently	Adverb	UNKNOWN	4340	Paulson stepped inside the range and caught the spear by the shaft and rushed up its length, quickly and efficiently embedding his sword deep in the creature's chest.
42	staggering	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4341	The man fell away a couple of staggering steps, grabbed the back of a chair for support, and then fell over anyway, the chair tumbling down about him.
43	pitfall	Noun	UNKNOWN	4342	Brother Justice knew the pitfalls, though.
44	gwendolyn	Noun	UNKNOWN	4343	Gwendolyn of the Sea since the fight," the bartender of the tavern added.
45	skirmish	Noun	UNKNOWN	4344	They ran all the morning, fighting often, but only quick skirmishes.
46	assortment	Singular	UNKNOWN	4345	He was a bit apprehensive when he got to the gates of the indicated house, a huge structure of imported materials: smooth white marble from the south, dark wooden beams from the Timberlands, and an assortment of garden artwork that could only have come from the galleries of the finest sculptors in Ursal.
47	jester	Noun	UNKNOWN	4346	Brother Justice's first thought was that Avelyn had hired on with this obviously wealthy merchant, perhaps to perform some necessary feat with the stones, perhaps merely as a court jester.
48	yelp	Noun	UNKNOWN	4347	The dog's legs splayed wide; it gave one yelp, then lay still, its back broken, its lungs collapsing.
49	foyer	Noun	UNKNOWN	4348	The man pointed toward a door across the foyer.
50	corn	Gerund	UNKNOWN	4349	He had crossed the Moorlands, corning from the west.
51	yellowish	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4350	In an instant, a yellowish glow surrounded the monk, and the waves of intrusion were halted.
52	jamb	Noun	UNKNOWN	4351	He kicked again and again, repeatedly slamming the lock, until finally, the wood of the jamb gave way, the door flying wide to reveal a portly man, richly dressed, standing behind a large oaken desk, a loaded crossbow in hand.
53	fugitive	Noun	UNKNOWN	4352	Likely, the man was in no way connected to Avelyn, but still the fugitive monk remained concerned.
54	familiarity	Noun	UNKNOWN	4353	"How fares old Markwart?" he asked, his tone one of familiarity.
55	garner	Verb	UNKNOWN	4354	Obviously he had dealt with Markwart - where else would he have garnered so powerful a stone?
56	accomplish	Verb	UNKNOWN	4355	Many things could be accomplished with such a stone.
57	integrity	Noun	UNKNOWN	4356	Juicy lamb and thick cuts of venison buried in brown sauces and mushrooms, oranges that exploded in a shower of juice as soon as the integrity of their peels was breached, and large, round, yellow melons that the monk had never before seen but that were sweeter than anything he had ever tasted.
58	sheerest	Noun	UNKNOWN	4357	He recalled Dosey's fearful expression when he hinted that he would make the journey, a mixture, it seemed, of the sheerest horror and the highest titillation.
59	infinite	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4358	It seemed as if an hour went by, but then as if only a second had passed; what appeared as an infinite plain was crossed by a single step.
60	collide	Verb	UNKNOWN	4359	So many times he thought he would collide with jags of stone only to watch them rush under him at the last possible second.
61	ant	Noun	UNKNOWN	4360	Below him, massed like ants, were the campsites of armies.
62	monstrosity	Noun	UNKNOWN	4361	But that spectacle couldn't hold Brother Justice's attention for any length of time, not with this huge monstrosity leering at him from on high.
63	redemption	Singular	UNKNOWN	4362	The man had passed the point of redemption and had perhaps awakened a dangerous curiosity in the demon.
64	feeble	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4363	The monk drove the feeble merchant to his knees and held fast long after the struggling stopped, long after the merchant's arms fell slack at his sides.
65	belonging	Noun	UNKNOWN	4364	"I am at peace, a greater sense of belonging than I have ever known," the ranger said at length after more than half an hour sitting in his wooden chair in the darkness, staring at the barely perceptible mirror.
66	philosophical	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4365	That was the way it always happened, the needs of the day dispatching the spirit soon before the dawn, turning Elbryan's thoughts from philosophical to pragmatic.
67	platform	Noun	UNKNOWN	4366	Mounted sidelong on a platform, the thing would have passed for a fair-sized ballista!
68	grant	Verb	UNKNOWN	4367	Normally in a test of archery, each contestant would be granted a specified number of shots, with the best total score serving as the measure.
69	victorious	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4368	Elbryan clenched a fist, thinking himself victorious as he marked the flight.
70	roam	Verb	UNKNOWN	4369	His eyes betrayed his idea, roaming to the centaur's strong back.
71	giving	Noun	UNKNOWN	4370	A chair shattered against his back, but while Belster O'Comely groaned at the hit, the monk only laughed all the louder, giving his habitual cry, "Ho, ho, what!" Elbryan leaned on his staff, thinking this quite a show.
72	arse	Noun	UNKNOWN	4371	"And I could put an arrow up your arse from a hundred paces," Elbryan retorted.
73	killer	Noun	UNKNOWN	4372	"Ye've got yerself one dragon-killer of a bow, me friend," Bradwarden offered.
74	naturally	Adverb	UNKNOWN	4373	Jill was naturally strong, but surely not as strong as he had been.
75	converge	Verb	UNKNOWN	4374	The hundreds of purplish rings converged in the middle of the room.
76	homage	Noun	UNKNOWN	4375	Elbryan went right to the heart of the grove, paying homage to whoever was buried there, then came back to the edge, wanting to feel the breeze in his face.
77	downwind	Verb	UNKNOWN	4376	It was taking his measure, Elbryan knew, though he was not downwind and too far for most horses even to notice him.
78	steed	Noun	UNKNOWN	4377	He knew the magnificent steed would not return that day, and so he walked away, not in the direction in which the horse had run but back toward Dundalis.
79	silly	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4378	"If we missed them, I'll beat ye silly," the large man huffed at Chipmunk, who wisely shifted to the side, out of arm's reach.
80	swear	Verb	UNKNOWN	4379	The wind rushed past his ears, the landscape flying along beneath, such a thrill of the run, such a smoothness of stride, that Elbryan would have sworn he was flying across a cushion of air.
81	aimlessly	Adverb	UNKNOWN	4380	Brother Justice had not gained on his intended prey - had, in fact, lost ground, wandering aimlessly about the large city.
82	deter	Verb	UNKNOWN	4381	The brave woman was not easily deterred.
83	nip	PastTense	UNKNOWN	4382	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.
84	shrink	Verb	UNKNOWN	4383	The name "Elbryan" nipped at the edges of her mind, but with it came an overwhelming sense of grief and loss: that black wall of pain that caused her to shrink away, that had made her put the glowing ember in Connor Bildeborough's face.
85	bet	Verb	UNKNOWN	4384	"We would climb up to the top rail and bet on how long we could walk it." "My friends," Jill said, without really thinking about her answer.
86	suffocate	Gerund	UNKNOWN	4385	Though she was outside, she felt as if she were suffocating, closed within a space that was too tight.
87	downstairs	Noun	UNKNOWN	4386	He was downstairs soon enough, drinking and talking amid a huge crowd, for many of the area trappers had come in to lay in provisions in preparation of the coming winter.
88	arguing	Noun	UNKNOWN	4387	They were a tough bunch indeed, reclusive and opinionated, men and a few women who lived by their weapons and their cunning, and Avelyn was soon enough arguing with one rake that a town whose history was as dark as that of Dundalis should be better prepared to face the danger.
89	hateful	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4388	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.
90	astride	Noun	UNKNOWN	4389	Out from the gaps in the line came the next surprise, a goblin cavalry, the diminutive creatures astride shaggy ponies.
91	disciplined	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4390	And working in concert," he added, sweeping his arm across the panorama of the encampment, indicating the disciplined manner in which the creatures were organizing their camp.
92	toll	Noun	UNKNOWN	4391	The folk recognized the dramatic movement as a signal and braced for the charge, determined to take their toll, whatever the final outcome.
93	massacre	Noun	UNKNOWN	4392	So fast and complete was the massacre that Avelyn never used his magic.
94	masse	Noun	UNKNOWN	4393	And beyond the masses loomed a single dark silhouette, a conical mountain tipped by a steady stream of dark smoke.
95	misshapen	Noun	UNKNOWN	4394	Jill's eyes opened wide, the memory suddenly too vivid, the recollection of that ugly, misshapen dead thing assaulting her, telling her mind to run away.
96	unwanted	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4395	Might the mad friar's increasing reputation have brought unwanted recognition from the strict order?
97	deft	Noun	UNKNOWN	4396	A deft twist by the woman turned the sword out of harm's way, allowing Brother Justice merely a glancing hit that forced Jill back a step.
98	ruse	Noun	UNKNOWN	4397	She understood then that his mental attack had been but a ruse, a distraction from which he could recover much faster than she.
99	enthusiastically	Adverb	UNKNOWN	4398	of that marauding black bear?" asked Belster O'Comely, moving down to that end of the bar, wiping it rather enthusiastically to force two of the men away.
100	lately	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4399	Lately, though, Belster had begun changing that.
101	sick	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4400	"The bear was sick and dying anyway," Tol Yuganick blustered on.