Gulliver's Travels Chapters 7-8 Vocabulary 3/3

"Among the fifty men on the ship, [Gulliver] met an old comrade, Peter Williams, who (a)   ed for [his] good character."

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Flimnap, the High Treasurer, and others, accused Gulliver of (a)   for "like a false traitor, [entertaining] ambassadors even though he knew they were servants of an enemy lately at war against his said Majesty."

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

The Emperor's council "thought the loss of [Gulliver's] eyes was too easy a (a)   "for treason" and wanted to starve him instead.

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

"The court, impatient to have [Gulliver] gone, helped readily "to have a large boat made for Gulliver's (a)   ; after a month it was finished, and he said good-bye to the Emperor.

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

One of the reasons that the Lilliputians think Gulliver committed treason is that he was visited by the (a)   of Blefuscu, a country recently at war with Lilliput.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RI.1.1

The Lilliputians decided to starve Gulliver so that "the (a)   of [his] carcass would not be so dangerous because [his] body would be shrunk to half its present size."

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

The Emperor of Lilliput send a(n) (a)   "to explain to the monarch of Blefuscu that [Gulliver's] merciful master only wanted to punish [him] by putting out [his] eyes...and expected that his Brother of Blefuscu would send [Gulliver] back to Lilliput bound hand and foot."

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Lilliputians figured that after he starved to death, "five or six thousand subjects could cut [Gulliver's] flesh" from his (a)   "in two or three days and bury it to prevent infection. [His] skeleton would be left as a monument."

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

"Nothing terrified the people so much as these praises of Emperor's mercy, because the more the Emperor's mercy was insisted on, the more (a)   was the punishment and the more likely that the one who suffered it was innocent."

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

The Emperor worries that because "the friendship between [Gulliver] and him is so well known that perhaps the board night think him (a)   " to Gulliver and not willing to punish him as he deserves.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3