Gulliver's Travels Chapters 3-6 Vocabulary 3/3

The Lilliputians look on _______ as a worse crime than theft "because watchfulness and common sense can preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no protection against cunning."

"The ______ between the two parties runs so high that they will neither eat, not drink nor talk with each other."

"...When [the rebellions] are put down, the exiles always fled to [Blefuscu] for ______" from their former enemies.

"________ is a capital crime to them. They reason that if someone is unkind to someone who had been generous to him, he must be a common enemy of the rest of mankind, who have not given him anything. Therefore such a man is not fit to live."

The emperor of Lilliput was so ambitious that he wished Gulliver to help him destroy all of the Big-Enders and force "the Blefuscudian people to break the smaller ends of their eggs. That would make him the sole _______ of the whole world."

On Gulliver's handkerchief Lilliputian cavalry "performed mock ______es, fired blunt arrows, and attacked and retreated."

When a Lilliputian official leaves office, "because of either death or _______, five or six candidates ask the Emperor for a chance to entertain the court with a rope dance. Whoever jumps the highest without falling wins the job."

"Whoever is the most _______ at leaping and creeping gets the blue silk, the red silk goes to the next best, and the green to the third best. Very few people around the [Lilliputian] court are not adorned with these threads around their waists."

"...I asked the Emperor to let a troop of his ______ exercise on this plain. He approved and I took them up one by one, already mounted and armed, in my hands."

"The girls of noble families are educated like the boys and if their nurses ever entertain the girls with foolish stories they are publicly whipped three time around the city, put in prison for a year, and then ______ed for life to the most desolate part of the country."