"Size Matters"
"I Brob-ding-nag-ed
My Knee"
Island in the Sky
Swift's Vocab Voyage
Gulliver's Word Travels
100

The height of the Lilliputians.

What is about 6 inches tall? 

100

Where Gulliver sleeps while living in the palace. 

Where is in a doll's cradle?

100

The center of the flying island that allows it to move.

What is a giant, 6-yard-long loadstone (a natural magnet)?

100

Abundant in supply or quality. "He took____notes to prepare for the exam".

What is copious?

100

The small or trivial. Used to describe the tiny inhabitants

What is Lilliputian? 

200

What Gulliver uses to protect his face from Lilliputian arrows.

What are his spectacles (eyeglasses)?

200

 How Gulliver escapes Brobdingnag.

  • What is a giant eagle picks up his traveling box and drops it into the sea?
200

The sticks with bladders filled with stones to gently hit people on the mouth or ears to let them know when to speak or listen.

What are flappers?

200

Ask or beg for something humbly.

"The man was not too prideful to _____ for change to buy food".

What is supplicate?

200

The highest title of honor in Lilliput is one of the following: 

Dame Lillensworth, Lord Balnibarbi, Splack, Nardac


What is Nardac?  

300

What Gulliver did to help Lilliput win the war against Blefuscu.


What is he stole the Blefuscudian ships?

300

The substance Gulliver brags about to the King, which the King finds horrifying.  

What is gunpowder?

300

The only thing the Laputian women want to do.

What is to go down to the mainland (Balnibarbi) to have affairs?

300

Being wary or unwilling to take risks.

" I believe some degree of______ is needed before we enter the lion enclosure."

What is circumspection?

300

The name Gulliver's nurse Glumdalclitch gives him.

Lackelsmack, Grildrig, Blinkerspeck, Gully

What is Grildrig?

400

 How Lilliputians determine who gets high government office.


What is a competition of who can leap highest over a stick (rope dancing) without falling? 

400

The most terrifying insect experience Gulliver has in Brobdingnag.

What is he is attacked by wasps as large as partridges?

400

The "iron-clad" secret to how the king punishes rebellious cities below.

What is he uses the magnet to fly directly over them, blocking out the sun and rain to create a famine? 

400

Deserving praise and commendation.

Her_____ actions made it possible for displaced families to reunite. 

What is laudable?

400


      • Used to describe the absurd scientists in the Academy of Lagado who try to extract sunbeams from cucumbers.
    • projector,Struldbrug, Laputa, Balnibarbi 

What is the projector?

500

The reason for the war between Lilliput and Blefuscu?

What is a dispute over which end of a boiled egg should be broken?

500

 The reason Gulliver finds the Brobdingnagian beggars disgusting.


What is he sees giant lice as big as pigs crawling on their skin and clothes?

500

The reason Lord Munodi’s house looks different from everyone else’s. 

What is it is built in the old, practical, and sturdy fashion, whereas everyone else has adopted the failed, "modern" architectural methods from Laputa?

500

Willing to please others; obliging; agreeable.

"When unharnessed, Northern dogs are peaceful and___".  

What is complaisant?

500

The High-Heels and Low-Heels, poking fun at English political parties.

What are the Tramecksan and Slamecksan?

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