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| 1 | lemma | pos | cefr_level | coverage_rank | context_sentence | context_sentence_zh | definition_zh |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | compromise | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4501 | 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. | ||
| 3 | impiety | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4502 | The weakness of mankind, the impiety of. | ||
| 4 | cowardice | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4503 | Elbryan knew well that the man had not been ill, and he considered the sudden cowardice truly out of character. | ||
| 5 | precaution | Singular | UNKNOWN | 4504 | And now that we are known, our enemies take precautions, moving about in larger, better-prepared bands. | ||
| 6 | suren | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4505 | 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. | ||
| 7 | thump | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4506 | 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. | ||
| 8 | unarmored | Verb | UNKNOWN | 4507 | 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? | ||
| 9 | significant | Adjective | B2 | 4508 | But neither will we deliver any significant blows. | ||
| 10 | decisive | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 4509 | 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. | ||
| 11 | unasked | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4510 | It is the life that fate has thrust upon us, and I am proud indeed that few, so very few, have shrunk before their sudden, unasked for responsibilities. | ||
| 12 | warfare | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4511 | 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. | ||
| 13 | budding | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 4512 | 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. | ||
| 14 | unhindered | Verb | UNKNOWN | 4513 | 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. | ||
| 15 | plod | Gerund | UNKNOWN | 4514 | 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. | ||
| 16 | idly | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 4515 | 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. | ||
| 17 | amazingly | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 4516 | She crossed over Elbryan, the ranger engaged with sword now, battling a line of goblins and, amazingly, driving them back. | ||
| 18 | keeping | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 4517 | She crossed over the goblins, scrambling high and keeping quiet, until she was, at last, directly above the huddled group of prisoners. | ||
| 19 | clump | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4518 | 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. | ||
| 20 | stooge | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4519 | "You will grow accustomed to your new body, my stooge, my general," the dactyl teased, "my assassin. | ||
| 21 | stony | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4520 | The closest two columns stretched out their stony arms, broke through the inanimate stone holding fast their legs, and started the monk's way. | ||
| 22 | foolishness | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4521 | "What foolishness is that?" the monk protested. | ||
| 23 | diminished | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 4522 | For Tuntun, the sting of being left out of that all-important journey had not diminished, and no logical arguments could change the way the elf felt about it. | ||
| 24 | illumination | Singular | UNKNOWN | 4523 | 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. | ||
| 25 | afterlife | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4524 | There is no afterlife for a miserable wretch such as thee! | ||
| 26 | overmatched | Verb | UNKNOWN | 4525 | Juraviel fought valiantly, but he was overmatched. | ||
| 27 | impromptu | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4526 | 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. | ||
| 28 | otherworldly | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 4527 | What he did know was that the, demon dactyl was searching for him; for them, sending its otherworldly vision out far and wide. | ||
| 29 | diabolical | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 4528 | He ordered her to the left, toward the giant without the glowing spike, for he sensed that the spike held some diabolical power. | ||
| 30 | trudge | Gerund | UNKNOWN | 4529 | Toward it they went, trudging on, plowing through the heavy ash. | ||
| 31 | charged | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 4530 | Elbryan scrambled to untangle himself from Pony, and charged off behind the monk, the woman coming next, and bulky Bradwarden bringing up the rear. | ||
| 32 | dent | Gerund | UNKNOWN | 4531 | The arrow hit solidly, denting the armor plate and driving through, but not so deep as to cause any serious wound. | ||
| 33 | ramming | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4532 | Three quick strides later, the centaur was upon the giant, ramming hard into the behemoth's back. | ||
| 34 | sober | Verb | UNKNOWN | 4533 | But now the sobered monk remained silent and uncomplaining. | ||
| 35 | gully | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4534 | Halfway along the trail through the gully, an ominous and familiar orange glow appeared | ||
| 36 | menacingly | Adverb | UNKNOWN | 4535 | 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. | ||
| 37 | forcing | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4536 | Pursuit was close and fast, forcing the tired companions to stay at full speed. | ||
| 38 | teem | Gerund | UNKNOWN | 4537 | The dactyl hesitated at the sight, at the stone aglow with teeming magic. | ||
| 39 | wrath | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4538 | 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. | ||
| 40 | sulfuric | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 4539 | Even from this great height, Elbryan and Pony could feel the intense heat, and the sulfuric stench was nearly overwhelming. | ||
| 41 | armband | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4540 | 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. | ||
| 42 | dripping | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 4541 | Tuntun flew away, back up toward the combatants, her slender daggers in hand, both dripping magma from Quintall's eyes. | ||
| 43 | whack | Verb | UNKNOWN | 4542 | 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. | ||
| 44 | grate | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4543 | The others followed without delay, and their hopes mounted when they came to a heavy grate, bars set floor to ceiling, blocking the passage. | ||
| 45 | swishing | Adjective | UNKNOWN | 4544 | 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. | ||
| 46 | spew | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4545 | 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. | ||
| 47 | electricity | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4546 | 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. | ||
| 48 | repertoire | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4547 | 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. | ||
| 49 | archway | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4548 | 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. | ||
| 50 | budge | Gerund | UNKNOWN | 4549 | He did see Bradwarden, slamming repeatedly, stubbornly, at the doors, not budging them in the least. | ||
| 51 | stalagmite | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4550 | 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. | ||
| 52 | conduit | Noun | UNKNOWN | 4551 | 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. | ||
| 53 | impetuous | Adjective | C1 | 4552 | 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. | ||
| 54 | empathy | Noun | C1 | 4553 | Elbryan forced himself to stay away from such vivid empathy, realizing that he could easily lose himself in utter despair. | ||
| 55 | skeptical | Adjective | C1 | 4554 | 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. | ||
| 56 | callous | Adjective | C1 | 4555 | The cool and callous, way Quintall had dispatched the man, had murdered a human being, shook gentle Avelyn to his very bones. | ||
| 57 | relinquish | Verb | C1 | 4556 | This man was tough, admirably so, and Jojonah feared he would die from the beatings before he would relinquish his identity. | ||
| 58 | stoicism | Noun | C2 | 4557 | The question caught Jojonah off guard, and as he considered it, he came to realize that Avelyn's stoicism was, perhaps, not so deeply rooted. | ||
| 59 | insidious | Adjective | C2 | 4558 | Then the dactyl began a more insidious attack, a mental barrage of images of torture and agony, and Maiyer Dek, the proud and strong leader, the strongest mortal creature in all the Barbacan, whimpered pitifully and squirmed about on the floor, begging for mercy. |