booking/the-demon-awakens/beginner/raws/the-demon-awakens-beginner-words-part-45.csv

1	lemma	pos	cefr_level	coverage_rank	context_sentence	context_sentence_zh	definition_zh
2	lord	Noun	UNKNOWN	4401	He studied the man in the distant corner, the one Tol had referred to sarcastically as "our lord protector," with new interest.
3	protecting	Noun	UNKNOWN	4402	Ye're smart enough to see that Pony needs little protecting."
4	vertically	Adverb	UNKNOWN	4403	Elbryan casually put Hawkwing out vertically in front of him, picking off the punch with the hard wood.
5	groaning	Noun	UNKNOWN	4404	It went down hard, groaning, trying to shake the dizziness, growling against the searing pain.
6	skilled	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4405	Then the ranger began his scan again, seeking the newcomer, this skilled fighter, this assassin.
7	hustle	Verb	UNKNOWN	4406	The ranger shrugged it away and hustled to the side of the fat monk.
8	herb	Noun	UNKNOWN	4407	This man had been-poisoned, no doubt about it, but the poison was not based in any substance, in any herb or plant or any animal venom.
9	swerved	Noun	UNKNOWN	4408	Elbryan watched him go, taking some comfort in the fact that the man swerved for the inn's side door and was apparently going to his room, not back to the common room.
10	affair	Noun	UNKNOWN	4409	Elbryan didn't know exactly where he might fit in to such a private affair, but he expected that he and the fat monk - and likely the deadly stranger, as well - had not seen the last of one another.
11	forewarn	Verb	UNKNOWN	4410	Now Avelyn was indeed growing fearful; it wasn't like Jill to disappear for so long without forewarning him or without finding some way to contact him.
12	defined	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4411	To Avelyn, who had lived all of his life in the more populous and defined central region of Honce-the-Bear, and who had lately.
13	uncompromising	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4412	to find you, yes, yes," Avelyn finally explained, finding his wits against that uncompromising stare.
14	wearily	Adverb	UNKNOWN	4413	I cannot be sure." Elbryan sighed wearily.
15	dimly	Adverb	UNKNOWN	4414	Quintall stood at the back of the dimly lit cave, leaning easily against the wall, flicking flint against steel until a light caught on the torch he had propped there.
16	foolishly	Adverb	UNKNOWN	4415	And then they were buried beneath the subsequent memories: the death of Thagraine, of the boy who had foolishly gone onto Pimaninicuit, of all the crew of the Windrunner, of Dansally, of Siherton.
17	vine	Plural	UNKNOWN	4416	Elbryan took the torch with him as he pushed aside the vines and entered the inner chamber.
18	powerfully	Adverb	UNKNOWN	4417	Elbryan jammed one end of Hawkwing into the dirt and swept the staff powerfully across in front of him, left to right, deflecting the blow.
19	wraith	Noun	UNKNOWN	4418	He stood on the legs of a wraith facing the dactyl demon.
20	magnificence	Singular	UNKNOWN	4419	- in all its horrible beauty, in all its magnificence.
21	device	Singular	UNKNOWN	4420	Perhaps the stones served as a warning device to the masters back in St.-Mere-Abelle, a signal that Quintall was dead, that Quintall had failed.
22	abuse	Verb	B2	4421	You stole the stones because you rightly judged that they were being abused." Avelyn nodded, so glad to hear those words.
23	observation	Plural	UNKNOWN	4422	I cannot know, can only guess, and I fear that any guess I make will be tainted by the observations of my current life.
24	betterment	Noun	UNKNOWN	4423	Those elven friends created Nightbird, this ranger, hopefully for the betterment of the world and surely for the betterment of me.
25	shaken	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4424	His only lament was that Pony seemed truly shaken by her return to this area.
26	mournful	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4425	His tune, mournful and hopeful all at once, calmed Avelyn and bolstered his resolve.
27	beneficial	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4426	"Beneficial or baneful?" "Beneficial," Avelyn said with all confidence and without hesitation.
28	interference	Singular	UNKNOWN	4427	The horse knew things simply, without the interference of reason that was the domain of men, elves, and the higher races.
29	jostle	Verb	UNKNOWN	4428	Symphony snorted again and jostled about, but gradually came to accept the woman.
30	culmination	Singular	UNKNOWN	4429	For Elbryan, it was the culmination of his youth, where every waking thought had led him to this point with this woman, his soulmate, his Pony.
31	insignia	Noun	UNKNOWN	4430	Thankfully, there were no giants or even powries to be seen, but there were at least fifty goblins down there, with several, Elbryan noted, wearing the black-and-gray insignia of the dactyl's army.
32	reconcile	Verb	UNKNOWN	4431	The large man's knowledge of goblins simply didn't reconcile with this sight before him.
33	wooded	Verb	UNKNOWN	4432	Tall Cric was by far the fastest of the three and he forged ahead, gaining steadily on the goblin as it scrambled down the back side of the hill, then over the wooded floor of the next valley.
34	corkscrew	Noun	UNKNOWN	4433	Even more surprising to the three men were the war engines, a dozen at least, great catapults and spear-throwing ballistae, and huge corkscrew devices, obviously for burrowing through fortified walls.
35	concoct	Noun	UNKNOWN	4434	One of the giants continued to stammer on about bad luck and other such nonsense, trying hard to concoct some excuse that might keep its skin attached to its body.
36	forthcoming	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4435	"Ye did!" Bradwarden roared, ending any forthcoming lies from the man and his two companions.
37	crest	Verb	UNKNOWN	4436	True to her word, Pony was riding hard to the south as the sun crested the eastern horizon.
38	thievery	Noun	UNKNOWN	4437	Stealthy thievery seemed the order of the day.
39	diving	Noun	UNKNOWN	4438	Hawkwing's bowstring hummed, the arrow flying true, diving into the back of the peeing goblin's head.
40	hatchet	Noun	UNKNOWN	4439	The ranger dropped Hawkwing, reached behind him to his pack, and tore free his hatchet.
41	ineffective	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4440	Elbryan looked at his weapons, so ineffective against the sturdy powrie.
42	pierce	Verb	UNKNOWN	4441	Elbryan's next shot pierced its heart and drove deep into the tree behind it, and the goblin slumped, quite dead, but standing, pegged to the tree.
43	peg	Verb	UNKNOWN	4442	Chipmunk popped out the last fastening peg, and, with the strength of a giant, the centaur lifted free the huge beam.
44	ghostly	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4443	Elbryan first noticed the ghostly figures moving through the mist as twilight descended.
45	strung	Noun	UNKNOWN	4444	He brought Symphony up behind a thick tangle of white birch and strung Hawkwing, ready to fight all the way to the westernmost village if need be.
46	bearish	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4445	Elbryan let the boy down to Paulson's waiting grasp, and the ranger was touched by how gently the bearish man handled the youngster.
47	compassion	Noun	UNKNOWN	4446	Whatever complaints Cric and Chipmunk might offer, they had remained in the area because of the refugees, out of simple compassion.
48	undetected	PastTense	UNKNOWN	4447	He left Symphony in the forest and moved tree to tree, crossing past goblin sentries undetected, at last finding a good vantage point on the edge of the village.
49	threateningly	Adverb	UNKNOWN	4448	Elbryan didn't flinch nor did he look back threateningly when a mug shattered against the wall beside the exit, a missile obviously aimed at the back of his head.
50	unleash	Verb	UNKNOWN	4449	The stone; as if it were something sentient, had called to the monk on that day when he had presented it to Elbryan and Symphony, and Avelyn, who had floated down the face of a cliff, who had walked on water and unleashed tremendous fireballs, who had held the power of a thunderstorm in his puny, mortal hands, would not discount any possibilities of its God-given power.
51	abandoned	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4450	Pony and Elbryan spent a long and quiet moment together, ending it wordlessly with a kiss that passed as a promise from Elbryan to the woman that she would not be abandoned, and as a promise from Pony that she and those who would leave would be ready when the moment of opportunity was upon them.
52	reassure	Verb	UNKNOWN	4451	Elbryan kept them down, tried to reassure them all by patting the other two children softly, by showing them his weapons and that he was ready should they be discovered.
53	ignorance	Noun	UNKNOWN	4452	The goblins' ignorance saved the creatures' lives that night, for death was barely an arm's length away; more important, the goblins' ignorance also saved Elbryan's plan.
54	fro	Noun	UNKNOWN	4453	The sky brightened to a dull gray shortly before the dawn, another lazy snowstorm dropping scattered flakes that floated to and fro during their descent.
55	admiring	Noun	UNKNOWN	4454	He put a hand on Elbryan's shoulder and gave the man a sincere, admiring look.
56	smother	Verb	UNKNOWN	4455	It slammed into a young tree, snapping branches and stumbling, but held its balance - stupidly, for the ground offered its only chance of smothering the flames - and ran on.
57	southwestern	Noun	UNKNOWN	4456	Every so often a cloud would rush overhead, pushed by southwestern breezes, but for the most part the stars shone crisp and clear, and die smell of spring was everywhere, the smell of new life.
58	spotted	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4457	Pony looked back and spotted Elbryan sitting on a low branch of a tree on the northern side of the ravine.
59	carrying	Noun	UNKNOWN	4458	The powerful centaur was still carrying the sack with the kicking powrie, and somehow managing to put his great bow to use every so often, but he still had enough strength to allow the fat monk up on his back.
60	bittersweet	Noun	UNKNOWN	4459	The encampment that night, closer to Dundalis than to Weedy Meadow, was filled with a bittersweet atmosphere.
61	dinner	Noun	UNKNOWN	4460	Elbryan had interrogated the captured powrie, getting no information of any value, and then the centaur had claimed the dwarf as his catch - and as his dinner.
62	disagreeable	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4461	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.
63	circlet	Noun	UNKNOWN	4462	He took the circlet back from her and set it about her forehead.
64	cleanly	Adverb	UNKNOWN	4463	But they had not gotten away cleanly and were forced to separate from the main group.
65	depend	Verb	UNKNOWN	4464	"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.
66	droplet	Noun	UNKNOWN	4465	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.
67	undead	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4466	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!
68	sending	Noun	UNKNOWN	4467	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.
69	rotted	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4468	Now his hit did indeed sting the zombie, the sword tearing a deep gash in the rotted flesh, smacking hard against a rib.
70	shear	Gerund	UNKNOWN	4469	Mighty Tempest sheared right through the crystal, and the whole of it blew into dust, shattered a thousand times.
71	pommel	Noun	UNKNOWN	4470	He held it up before his admiring gaze, studying the craftsmanship, the gleaming silverel, the magnificent gemstone pommel, the blue, the storm clouds.
72	occupied	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4471	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.
73	tendril	Noun	UNKNOWN	4472	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.
74	probe	Noun	UNKNOWN	4473	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.
75	perk	PastTense	UNKNOWN	4474	Elbryan perked up his ears, wondering if the monk had been in contact with Uncle Mather.
76	firewood	Noun	UNKNOWN	4475	Elbryan, Bradwarden, and Avelyn came upon a group of a dozen goblins chopping firewood, and summarily destroyed them.
77	disposal	Noun	UNKNOWN	4476	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.
78	violate	Verb	UNKNOWN	4477	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.
79	playfully	Adverb	UNKNOWN	4478	"Ho, ho, what?" Pony said to him playfully, drawing a smile from the monk.
80	wryly	Adverb	UNKNOWN	4479	Elbryan smiled wryly at Bradwarden before the fearsome centaur could take offense.
81	galloping	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4480	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.
82	endanger	Verb	UNKNOWN	4481	The monk understood the situation up front, understood that Elbryan could not buy him very much more time without endangering many lives.
83	blindly	Adverb	UNKNOWN	4482	The burning giant continued on with hardly a thought for the dwarf, running blindly, swatting futilely at the flames.
84	growling	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4483	The ominous growling increased tenfold, a hundredfold, deafening Avelyn, blocking the sounds of the dactyl's shrieks.
85	faintly	Adverb	UNKNOWN	4484	Pony awakened shortly thereafter, the dulled dawn just beginning, but still the glow from atop the mountain was faintly visible.
86	bedside	Noun	UNKNOWN	4485	"'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.
87	cohesive	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4486	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.
88	whining	Noun	UNKNOWN	4487	The powrie had little love of goblins and found Gothra a pitiful whining creature.
89	trio	Noun	UNKNOWN	4488	By the ranger's calculations, the trailing trio would soon be well within the goblin's view.
90	readied	Verb	UNKNOWN	4489	He wished that he had Hawkwing readied, that he could lead the way with a stinging arrow.
91	inexorably	Adverb	UNKNOWN	4490	Yet another caravan of monsters, laden with engines of war and moving inexorably south, washed those peaceful thoughts from Avelyn's mind.
92	amusement	Noun	UNKNOWN	4491	"We will fight you, every mile, every inch!" Again, the amusement.
93	victor	Noun	UNKNOWN	4492	"I am with the victor," Quintall assured him.
94	inconvenience	Singular	UNKNOWN	4493	"A minor inconvenience and no more," Quintall replied.
95	slamming	Noun	UNKNOWN	4494	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.
96	dissuade	Verb	UNKNOWN	4495	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.
97	riderless	Adjective	UNKNOWN	4496	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.
98	receding	Noun	UNKNOWN	4497	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.
99	spurt	Verb	UNKNOWN	4498	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.
100	overbalance	Verb	UNKNOWN	4499	Reaching, reaching, the giant overbalanced and fell to the ground.
101	traitor	Noun	UNKNOWN	4500	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.