The false premise in this excerpt is that
Read the excerpt from "A Modest Proposal."
Those who are more thrifty (as I must confess the times
require) may flea the carcass; the skin of which, artificially
dressed, will make admirable gloves for ladies, and
summer boots for fine gentlemen.
some people in England were suffering from poverty and
hunger.
some women wore gloves and some men wore summer
boots.
people sometimes spend less during times of economic
hardship.
people would be willing to use the skin of children to
make clothing.

Aslender threadlike object or fiber, especially one found in animal or plant structures.

Syllable added to a root word to change its meaning : affixan independent word--example run,walk,book : free morphemeaffix that gives grammatical meaning such as tense or number : inflectiona word part that must attach to a word in order to be usable : bound morphemedegree of comparison formed by adding -er or more to an adjective : comparativedegree of comparison formed by adding -est or most to an adjective : superlativeaffix added to the beginning of a word : prefixaffix added to the end of a word : suffixroot word of lovable : lovetwo roots used together to form one word : combining form