Gulliver's Travels Chapters 1-3 Vocabulary 3/3

"The King, although he had been educated in philosophy and mathematics, when he looked at my shape closely and saw me walk, thought I might be a piece of ______ made by some clever artist."

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"I thought how ______ it was to be so insignificant in this nation, just as a single Lilliputian would be among us."

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A greedy friend advises Gulliver's master to put Gulliver on display to make money. Gulliver comments that this friend had the reputation "of a ______ and, to my misfortune, he deserved it."

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"I bemoaned my lonely widow and my fatherless children. I regretted my ______ in taking another voyage against the advice of all my friends and relations."

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"The fierceness of this [cat's] face completely unnerved me, even though I was at the other end of the table, fifty feet away, and my mistress held her fast for fear she might spring and seize me in her_______."

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The Queen's dwarf, "became proud and rude at seeing a creature so much beneath him. He would always try to ______ and look big as he passed by me."

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"A workman, who was famous for little _______, made [Gulliver] two chairs from a substance like ivory, two tables and a wardrobe to put my things in."

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The king's scholars don't believe Gulliver's assurances that in his own country everyone is small and there he could defend himself and find food as well as Brobdingnagians can in their own country. "To this the scholars only ______, saying that the farmer had instructed me well in my story."

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"Her Majesty agreed to my request and easily got the farmer's _____, who was glad [to give his permission] to have his daughter at the royal court."

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4