Read the excerpt from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and complete the paragraph that follows.

But finding none that would carp with him, he exclaims, "What! is this Arthur's house, the fame of which has spread through so many realms? Forsooth, the renown of the Round Table is overturned by the word of one man's speech, for all tremble for dread without a blow being struck!" With this he laughed so loud that Arthur blushed for very shame, and waxed as wroth as the wind. "I know no man," he says, "that is aghast at thy great words. Give me now thy axe and I will grant thee thy request!"

These lines tell us that the Green Knight mocked the knights of Arthur’s court for being cowardly and not accepting his challenge. King Arthur stepped up to accept the challenge himself, but Gawain does not let his king suffer such agony,humiliation,arrogance,custom ,and accepts the potentially fatal challenge. By this act, Gawain upholds the mode ,dictate, code, value of chivalry.

These lines tell us that the Green Knight mocked the knights of Arthur’s court for being cowardly and not accepting his challenge. King Arthur stepped up to accept the challenge himself, but Gawain does not let his king suffer such humiliation and accepts the potentially fatal challenge. By this act, Gawain upholds the code of chivalry.

Explanation:

The words to complete the paragraph are humiliation and code according to the context provided by the two paragraphs, Gawain was not going to allow his king to pass through an embarrassing situation and he follows a code that all the King's men have to follow that is also called the honor code, which includes some points as protecting the weak and defenseless, obeying those placed in authority, and always speaking the truth, bravery, courtesy, honour and great gallantry toward women.