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A vocabulary word list for Gulliver's Travels is arranged in order of appearance
  • Gulliver's Travels: PART I: The Author gives some account of himself and family...
    Chapters I-III: eminent, hosier, submissive, dexterity, vessels, retinue, disapprobation, conjecturing, victuals, proclamation, countenance, articulate, impudence, fortnight, palisades, prodigious, lucid, oracle, scimitar, magnanimous, dexterity, skirmish, dominion, computation, malice, prostrate, circumspection, flourish, edict
    Chapters IV-V:Mildendo the metropolis of Lilliput described...
    apprehension, infallibly, enterprise, maliciously, prodigious, incessantly, quench
    Chapter VI: Of the Inhabitants of Lilliput:
    compliance, vigilance, cunning, intercede, extenuation, degenerate, notion, docility, clemency, robust, subservience, ingenuous, vindicate, reconcile, intrigue, salutation, procure, impediment, expedient, courtier, precipitancy, envoy, deprive, slacken, insatiable
  • PART II: A voyage to Brobdingnag. A great storm described:
    Chapters I-IV: ague, lanyard, endeavor, lamented, folly, posterity, grievously, dram, intrepidity, oratory, infallibly, hue, discoursing, scabbard, tedious, trifling, dexterous, miser, contriving, alight, vexation, insatiable, demeanour, recompense, drudgery, august, improprieties, virtuosi, contrive, schisms, indignation, swagger, wrestle, excrement, hamper, edifice, cumbersome, pinnacle, hewn
    Chapters V-VIII: Several adventures that happened to the Author
    venture, rogue, espalier, prevail, malefactor, scaffold, rabble, giddiness, varlet, illustrious, sinister, zealous, enquiries, pecuniary, avarice, perfidiousness, inquisitive, vindication, laudable, mercurial, contemptible, assert, propagate, hammock, wistful, lattice, crannies, disconsolate, candour, equipage, impertinence
  • PART III: A voyage to Laputa Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Clubbdubdrib and Japan
    Chapters I-IV: The Author sets out on his third voyage:
    apprehended, vehemence, humility, provisions, interposition, supplicating, cadence, speculation, precipice, etymology, celestial, effluvia, annihilate, hobgoblin, vivacity, caprice, declivity, rivulet, adamant, repelling, diffuse, tenure, odious, adamantine, contempt, eminent, illustrious, censure, volatile
    Chapters V-IX: The Author permitted to see the Grand Academy of Lagado
    hermetically, conjuring, tincture, lament, noxious, appropriated, brevity, corrosion, expedient, oblige, abstinence, melancholy, chimaeras, licentiousness, ebullient, peccant, vertigo, corrosive, palliative, infallibly, commodious, quantum, impute, acuteness, compliance, forfeiture, privy, spectre, benevolence, tedious, usurper, palatable, prelate, buffoon, panderism, veneration, pillage, retinue, clemency, infallible, peevish, covetous, morose, perpetuity
  • PART IV: A voyage to the Country of the Holynnhams
    Chapters I-V: The Author sets out as Captain of a ship...
    calenture, buccaneer, desolate, aversion, disdain, wattle, diligent, nuzzle, complaisant, provocative, proficiency, inclemencies, affectation, contrivance, digression, interpose, perjury, indignation, contemplation, clamour, embroil, variance, cunning, abhorrence, insinuate, biased
    Chapters VI-XII: A continuation of the state of England under Queen Anne...
    profusion, supposition, intemperance, hectoring, sloth, sagacity, preferment, insolence, scrofulous, rickety, congruity, sordid, equitable, rapine, repletion, grimace, coquetry, rudiments, censure, nimble, squalling, vermin, comeliness, vernal, noisome, indocile, assertion, contrive, fourscore, tranquility, importunate, tediousness, exhortation, censurer, degenerate, conspire, gratis, veracity, inviolable, studious, credulity, judicious, missive, execrable, posterity, reconcilement, smitten

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