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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Emperor of Lilliput send a(n) _______ "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."

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

"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 _____ was the punishment and the more likely that the one who suffered it was innocent."

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