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| 1 | lemma | pos | cefr_level | coverage_rank | global_frequency | context_sentence | context_sentence_zh | definition_zh |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | absence | Singular | C1 | 3001 | 3 | Let the younger boys and girls see him then, and afford him the respect he deserved, and let the older men see that the village, under his watchful eye, had fared well in their absence. | ||
| 3 | vibrant | Adjective | C1 | 3002 | 3 | How much younger and more vibrant Annalisa had seemed! | ||
| 4 | fading | Noun | C1 | 3003 | 3 | Tuntun turned in accord with the punch, her head fading back across to Elbryan's right, her right hand catching the boy's wrist and pushing outward, her left hand coming back in and catching the outside of his elbow, driving in. | ||
| 5 | somber | Adjective | C1 | 3004 | 3 | Squat towers anchored every turn in the wall; narrow windows showed that the place was built for somber reflection and defense. | ||
| 6 | denial | Noun | C1 | 3005 | 3 | Images assaulted them, mingling with imagined scenes even more horrifying, and amid all of it welled utter denial, the hope against obvious reality that this simply could not be happening. | ||
| 7 | intriguing | Adjective | C1 | 3006 | 3 | Most intriguing of all was the giant purple amethyst, with so many different crystal shafts. | ||
| 8 | accomplishment | Noun | C1 | 3007 | 3 | And, in the end, it is a sense of accomplishment, of purpose, and not the wealth attained by such accomplishment, that equates to fulfillment and happiness. | ||
| 9 | realm | Noun | C1 | 3008 | 3 | Even Elbryan, who would be entering the realm of adults that coming spring, had spent almost all the previous week with his head up a dirty chimney. | ||
| 10 | fatal | Adjective | C1 | 3009 | 3 | In the hollow of the twin pines, he had lost sight of his enemy - the first, and often fatal, mistake. | ||
| 11 | lad | Noun | C1 | 3010 | 3 | The call brought the sprinting lad to a skidding halt. | ||
| 12 | brutally | Adverb | C1 | 3011 | 3 | Then suddenly, brutally, he leaped ahead, fell low in a spinning crouch, and kicked up hard at Jill's extended sword. | ||
| 13 | rotation | Singular | C1 | 3012 | 3 | Brother Avelyn turned hard on the crank, both wood and man groaning with each rotation. | ||
| 14 | declaration | Singular | C1 | 3013 | 3 | The smaller man, Burgis, shied away at the declaration. | ||
| 15 | interior | Noun | C1 | 3014 | 3 | They were far below ground in one of the abbey's interior chambers, so there could be no window. | ||
| 16 | offering | Noun | C1 | 3015 | 3 | Whatever the man's reasons for offering a different title were not important, Avelyn decided, and so he accepted the name without further question. | ||
| 17 | somberly | Adverb | C1 | 3016 | 3 | Bradwarden nodded somberly, and Elbryan scooped up Hawkwing and ran off into the night, behind the departing powrie, though the ranger held faith that Avelyn would know how to deal with the dwarf. | ||
| 18 | partially | Adverb | C1 | 3017 | 3 | Pettibwa left Fellowship Way to her, even partially, Grady would not be pleased. | ||
| 19 | revenge | Noun | C1 | 3018 | 3 | Despite very real fears, Elbryan wanted revenge. | ||
| 20 | rationally | Adverb | C1 | 3019 | 3 | And now he was here, the best scenario he could rationally have hoped to find. | ||
| 21 | drain | Verb | C1 | 3020 | 3 | Gradually, though, his resolve drained away and so did his strength. | ||
| 22 | feat | Noun | C1 | 3021 | 3 | 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. | ||
| 23 | homeland | Noun | C1 | 3022 | 3 | He knew that he was nowhere near Dundalis; this mountain was nothing like the gentle, tree-covered hills of his homeland. | ||
| 24 | utterly | Adverb | C1 | 3023 | 3 | Then he realized that he was alone again, and utterly lost. | ||
| 25 | raiding | Noun | C1 | 3024 | 3 | If this boy knew of the evil races, then why was his village so utterly ill equipped to deal with a simple raiding party? | ||
| 26 | resignation | Singular | C1 | 3025 | 3 | Elbryan shifted to one knee, fitted a heavy arrow, and, with a sigh of complete resignation, let fly. | ||
| 27 | widening | Adjective | C1 | 3026 | 3 | The sharks would feed on the dead, and the frantic actions of those still alive combined with the widening blood spill would likely bring more in, he knew. | ||
| 28 | soaring | Adjective | C1 | 3027 | 3 | He had to know, and then, when he did know, he couldn't help but imagine the wonder of soaring through the air. | ||
| 29 | devilish | Adjective | C1 | 3028 | 3 | He found Bradwarden, at work crafting some devilish arrows, and the centaur's face immediately brightened. | ||
| 30 | layout | Noun | C1 | 3029 | 3 | Avelyn had described the general layout to them all, had told of the valley and of the lone mountain that maps named Aida. | ||
| 31 | opt | Verb | C1 | 3030 | 3 | The fire burned low - it had never been truly high, for Juraviel opted for caution, though he was fairly certain there were no monsters in the area, no organized groups anyway. | ||
| 32 | caution | Noun | C1 | 3031 | 3 | The fire burned low - it had never been truly high, for Juraviel opted for caution, though he was fairly certain there were no monsters in the area, no organized groups anyway. | ||
| 33 | overturn | Verb | C1 | 3032 | 3 | It struck the bowl of stew, overturning it and making a mess of the meal. | ||
| 34 | distress | Verb | C1 | 3033 | 3 | Recognizing the boy's ultimate distress and embarrassment, Juraviel generously let the insult pass. | ||
| 35 | twisting | Adjective | C1 | 3034 | 3 | Juraviel took full advantage, put Elbryan off balance and kept on twisting, angling the boy over the trough. | ||
| 36 | charter | Verb | C1 | 3035 | 3 | Avelyn and Thagraine had been formally named as the Preparers, the two monks who would leave the chartered ship and go onto the island of Pimaninicuit to collect and prepare the stones, while Quintall and Pellimar would remain aboard, going onto the island only should one of the chosen pair falter. | ||
| 37 | cease | Verb | C1 | 3036 | 3 | Even after the showers ceased, the pair would have to wait some time before handling the heated stones, and then the work would be too furious and desperate to pause and contemplate God. | ||
| 38 | execute | Verb | C1 | 3037 | 3 | Adjonas watched it all anxiously, moving along the rail as his ship executed a turn. | ||
| 39 | vanish | Verb | C1 | 3038 | 3 | Cat could hardly believe she had spoken the words, but her horror vanished when Connor laughed heartily. | ||
| 40 | virtue | Noun | C1 | 3039 | 3 | The man was obviously out of his mind, or at least he appeared so, but to Jill, who had spent a year and a half in the Coastpoint Guards, a cry for preparedness and virtue did not seem like such a bad thing. | ||
| 41 | dispute | Verb | C1 | 3040 | 3 | This was Adjonas' ship, that Quintall did not dispute, but the abbey had paid well for this transport and the brothers had not been put aboard as slaves. | ||
| 42 | raider | Noun | C1 | 3041 | 3 | "But the southern kingdom has little control over its raiders," Adjonas explained. | ||
| 43 | wistful | Adjective | C1 | 3042 | 3 | Of alb the places in the area, only Elbryan's private grove was more beautiful than the pine vale and the caribou moss, and none elicited more wistful memories from the young woman. | ||
| 44 | sanction | Verb | C1 | 3043 | 3 | Avelyn remembered the speech Master Jojonah had given him when first they had talked about the island, the stern warning that to utter even its name to any without sanction of Father Abbot Markwart was punishable by death, and he agreed with Quintall's logic. | ||
| 45 | dumb | Adjective | C1 | 3044 | 3 | His words, the sincerity of his tone, struck her dumb. | ||
| 46 | occurrence | Singular | C1 | 3045 | 3 | Gradually, as he came to see the light in Jill's eyes every time he entered the Way - a more and more common occurrence - the proud young man began to understand and accept that her problem was within the mysteries of her past and not with him. | ||
| 47 | carriage | Noun | C1 | 3046 | 3 | It was a ceremony that had all of Palmaris talking; the women swooning, the men standing tall, feigning importance, wishing they were in the carriage in Connor Bildeborough's place as it made its winding way, through the streets. | ||
| 48 | peasant | Noun | C1 | 3047 | 3 | Any reservations that the nobleman's family had held toward the peasant orphan girl had been washed away when they met Jill, truly beautiful both inside and out. | ||
| 49 | attendance | Noun | C1 | 3048 | 3 | It was bad enough that the carriage would roll through every part of the large city, bad enough that more than five hundred people would be in attendance at the church when she and Connor were wed, but the thought of what would come later, after the grand ball ... | ||
| 50 | cargo | Noun | C1 | 3049 | 3 | He did not wake up until long after the dawn, his precious cargo intact in his pack. | ||
| 51 | provision | Plural | C1 | 3050 | 3 | Perhaps it was the boredom, the heat, or the tasteless provisions, but the crew grew increasingly uneasy, even hostile. | ||
| 52 | ensue | Verb | C1 | 3051 | 3 | A long moment of silence ensued, all five - the three humans, Juraviel, and Tuntun - feeling the weight of confirmation. | ||
| 53 | plea | Singular | C1 | 3052 | 3 | "We're too far out," he said to his captain, his plea sounding as a whine. | ||
| 54 | accusation | Singular | C1 | 3053 | 3 | The accusation hit. | ||
| 55 | seal | Verb | C1 | 3054 | 3 | To his relief, they did not, but rather they fell against the metal, using their bulk to seal off any chance of entry. | ||
| 56 | supposedly | Adverb | C1 | 3055 | 3 | He saw reflected in the mirror those images that had been peripheral to him at that time: a supposedly ill man standing at the side of the camp and, more important, the expression on that man's face, hardly noticed at the time, but clear now to Elbryan. | ||
| 57 | suspicious | Adjective | C1 | 3056 | 3 | Suspicious, but wise enough to keep his mouth shut, Avelyn bid farewell to Adjonas and the others - though not a man aboard the Windrunner regretted the departure of the three monks - and went ashore. | ||
| 58 | trepidation | Singular | C1 | 3057 | 3 | The ranger felt the hairs on the back of his neck standing up, felt a tingling of trepidation. | ||
| 59 | spy | Noun | C1 | 3058 | 3 | He didn't really know what he would do, other than spy on the masters and confirm his fears of his approaching fate. | ||
| 60 | rod | Noun | C1 | 3059 | 3 | Then Avelyn and the remaining guard began selecting and collecting stones: the giant crystal amethyst, a rod of graphite, a small but potent ruby, and several others, including turquoise and amber, celestine and a tiger's paw, a chrysoberyl, or cat's eye, some gypsum and malachite, a sheet of chrysotile, and a piece of heavy magnetite. | ||
| 61 | sullen | Adjective | C1 | 3060 | 3 | News that she would soon be transferred to Pireth Vanguard far to the north, did little to change Jill's sullen mood. | ||
| 62 | disastrous | Adjective | C1 | 3061 | 3 | Jill, whose only experience with a man had been so very disastrous, did not like the odds. | ||
| 63 | irony | Noun | C1 | 3062 | 3 | Again, Elbryan sat back, smiling at the irony of it all. | ||
| 64 | encompass | Verb | C1 | 3063 | 3 | The song came louder, faster, and Juraviel began to dance delicate, spinning circles wrapped in a larger circle that encompassed the plants. | ||
| 65 | inspection | Singular | C1 | 3064 | 3 | Elbryan continued his inspection of the stream to make sure that nothing ominous was swimming along its course, then hooked his pack on the stiff branch of a prickly shrub and gingerly removed his boots. | ||
| 66 | intent | Verb | C1 | 3065 | 3 | The first thing Jill noticed was a huge, fat man standing atop a table, waving an empty mug, sometimes in a threatening manner to keep at bay the closer patrons, all obviously intent on knocking him from his perch. | ||
| 67 | mill | Verb | C1 | 3066 | 3 | Across the wide meadow, past the flowers and the grass, he saw perfection of form, a huge stallion, milling about the shadows of the distant trees. | ||
| 68 | regain | Verb | C1 | 3067 | 3 | Over the next giant she went, trying to regain her footing. | ||
| 69 | swinging | Noun | C1 | 3068 | 3 | Elbryan grabbed up Tempest in both hands and surged ahead, swinging an. | ||
| 70 | landmark | Noun | C1 | 3069 | 3 | She didn't recognize any landmarks but figured she must be somewhere west of Pireth Tulme on the north coast of the Mantis Arm. | ||
| 71 | thereafter | Verb | C1 | 3070 | 3 | Pony awakened shortly thereafter, the dulled dawn just beginning, but still the glow from atop the mountain was faintly visible. | ||
| 72 | glancing | Adjective | C1 | 3071 | 3 | 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. | ||
| 73 | scrutinize | Verb | C1 | 3072 | 3 | Avelyn scrutinized the broach carefully. | ||
| 74 | tempt | Verb | C1 | 3073 | 3 | Elbryan, too, was tempted, would have loved to see Andur'Blough Inninness again, especially now, to bolster his resolve before he completed this all-important, perilous journey. | ||
| 75 | readily | Adverb | C1 | 3074 | 3 | Pony looked at Avelyn, suddenly very appreciative of the training he had given her with the magical stones but somewhat surprised that she could call forth the magic of this cat's eye so readily. | ||
| 76 | sorrow | Noun | A2 | 3075 | 2 | To untwist hearts from grasping sorrow, | ||
| 77 | repair | Verb | A2 | 3076 | 2 | That meant gathering wood and tending the fires, repairing the cabins-which always seemed to need repair! | ||
| 78 | male | Noun | A2 | 3077 | 2 | 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. | ||
| 79 | shapely | Adverb | A2 | 3078 | 2 | She was in her mid-teens, but had the shapely body of a woman five years older. | ||
| 80 | formal | Adjective | A2 | 3079 | 2 | 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. | ||
| 81 | illness | Noun | A2 | 3080 | 2 | The last few years had been hard on her, one illness after another. | ||
| 82 | arrangement | Noun | A2 | 3081 | 2 | There were several complaints about this arrangement at first, mostly from the older boys who thought that they | ||
| 83 | tomb | Noun | A2 | 3082 | 2 | Thus, Elbryan and Pony walked away from Avelyn's chosen grave, from Tuntun's last breath, from Bradwarden's tomb. | ||
| 84 | everywhere | Adverb | A2 | 3083 | 2 | Goblins swarmed everywhere, and Pony spotted at least two other giants, fifteen feet tall and perhaps a thousand pounds of chiseled muscle. | ||
| 85 | vest | Noun | A2 | 3084 | 2 | He tore off his overcoat and pulled open his leather vest, quickly unbuttoning the sleeves of his white shirt. | ||
| 86 | aching | Adjective | A2 | 3085 | 2 | Avelyn sighed deeply and put his aching arms into motion. | ||
| 87 | figuring | Noun | A2 | 3086 | 2 | So Elbryan stood back from it all, figuring it to be one of those dangers for the villagers to work out on their own. | ||
| 88 | favorite | Noun | A2 | 3087 | 2 | Master Jojonah talked constantly, though he said nothing of interest - slight remarks about the weather, a storm that had hit twenty years before, the passing of his favorite baker in the town of St.-Mere-Abelle, a surprisingly off-color remark about the man's "lusty" wife. | ||
| 89 | brilliantly | Adverb | A2 | 3088 | 2 | 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. | ||
| 90 | unlock | Verb | A2 | 3089 | 2 | 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. | ||
| 91 | instructor | Noun | A2 | 3090 | 2 | For the first time since they had entered the room, there was no reverence in Master Jojonah's voice, just the dry lecturing tone of an instructor. | ||
| 92 | thickly | Adverb | A2 | 3091 | 2 | 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. | ||
| 93 | circling | Adjective | A2 | 3092 | 2 | 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. | ||
| 94 | spoon | Noun | A2 | 3093 | 2 | In her hand she clutched her heavy wooden spoon. | ||
| 95 | variety | Noun | A2 | 3094 | 2 | They learned how to tie ropes in a variety of ways, knots necessary for the many uses aboard a sailing vessel. | ||
| 96 | knot | Noun | A2 | 3095 | 2 | They learned how to tie ropes in a variety of ways, knots necessary for the many uses aboard a sailing vessel. | ||
| 97 | brightness | Noun | A2 | 3096 | 2 | Pony and Avelyn had underestimated the distance and camped outside Weedy Meadow that night, the monk reasoning that it would be better for them to go into town with such grim warnings during the brightness of day. | ||
| 98 | sunrise | Noun | A2 | 3097 | 2 | 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 | pet | Noun | A2 | 3098 | 2 | He was to watch the night sky, to learn every twinkle of light, to become so familiar with the visible stars that he would not only know their given names but also might create pet names of his own for them. | ||
| 100 | factor | Noun | A2 | 3099 | 2 | Was their mission the overriding factor here, for if they attacked and were beaten back, killed, or captured, then who would go on to the smoking mountain to stand against the demon dactyl? | ||
| 101 | gleam | Noun | A2 | 3100 | 2 | Father Abbot Markwart appeared wickedly intense, the gleam in his eyes seeming almost maniacal, and certainly frightening. |