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This study compares two CEFR-aligned lexical resources, the English Vocabulary Profile (EVP) and the Global Scale of English (GSE), to examine agreement in lexical difficulty assignment and patterns of divergence. Semantic equivalence between definitions of shared words and phrases was identified using a large language model, and CEFR levels for equivalent senses were quantitatively compared. Although strong correlations were found for both words and phrases, exact level agreement was limited to 39.9% for words and 24.9% for phrases. EVP tended to assign higher levels than GSE, particularly for verbs and verb phrases. These results seem to reflect differences in the corpora used for level assignment and suggest the need to distinguish between receptive and productive lexical difficulty indicators.
