In gullivers travels swifts desriptions of people and events are intended to make fun of specific individuals or events reread lines 160-177. then complete the following question.

in this description swift is making fun of

sorry i could not post the lines but if anyone knows the story well enough, this question will be worth a lot of points

Read the excerpt from part 2 of “to build a fire.” to build the fire he had been forced to remove his mittens, and the fingers had quickly gone numb. his pace of four miles an hour had kept his heart pumping blood to the surface of his body and to all the extremities. but the instant he stopped, the action of the pump eased down. which words from the excerpt provide context clues for the underlined word?