2020 Sept

Question 1

Gaslight

Answer 1

To manipulate someone into questioning their own sanity

Question 2

Naloxon

Answer 2

An opiate

Question 3

Magisterial

Answer 3

Authoritative

Domineering

Question 4

Verso

Answer 4

The back of a book

The left hand side of a book

Question 5

Enoch

Answer 5

A Hebrew patriarch

Question 6

Acanthus

Answer 6

A herbaceous plant or shrub with thorns

Question 7

Gables

Answer 7

The part of a wall that encloses the end of a pitched roof

Question 8

Scion

Answer 8

A descendant of a notable family

Question 9

Triturate

Answer 9

To grind to a fine powder

Question 10

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome

Answer 10

Dysmetropsia

Question 11

Strine

Answer 11

Australian English

Question 12

Habeas Corpus

Answer 12

A writ requiring someone to be apprehended and subsequently brought into court

Question 13

Ground lease

Answer 13

an agreement in which a tenant is permitted to develop a piece of property during the lease period, after which the land and all improvements are turned over to the property owner

Question 14

Prorogue

Answer 14

To discontinue a parliamentary session without dissolving it

Question 15

Assiduous

Answer 15

Exhibiting great care and perseverance

Question 16

Trigeminal nerve

Answer 16

Each of the five largest cranial nerves

Question 17

Opprobrium

Answer 17

Vilification

Disgrace

Question 18

Irascible

Answer 18

Irritable

Question 19

Paean

Answer 19

A song of praise

Question 20

Contabulate

Answer 20

To floor with boards

Question 21

Scantling

Answer 21

A timber beam of a small cross section

A set of standard dimensions for parts of a structure

Question 22

Boorish

Answer 22

Coarse

Question 23

Helicoid

Answer 23

An object of spiral or helical shape

Question 24

Trichromatic

Answer 24

Containing three colours

Question 25

Beadle

Answer 25

A ceremonial officer in a church or synagogue

Question 26

Logomachy

Answer 26

An argument about words

Question 27

Focaccia

Answer 27

A type of flat Italian bread

Question 28

Chambray

Answer 28

A cloth with a white weft and coloured warp

Question 29

Weft

Answer 29

Crosswise threads that are used to make cloth

Question 30

Accost

Answer 30

To approach boldly or aggressively

Question 31

Marginalia

Answer 31

Annotation

Question 32

Neurodivergent

Answer 32

Not neurotypical

Question 33

Ballast

Answer 33

Heavy material designed for stability

Question 34

Vagus nerve

Answer 34

Each of the tenth pair of cranial nerves

Question 35

Adjuvant

Answer 35

Applied after initial treatment for cancer

Question 36

Fain

Answer 36

Pleased or willing under the circumstances Obliged

Question 37

Affront

Answer 37

To insult

Question 38

Skeng

Answer 38

A weapon of choice

Question 39

Cartomancy

Answer 39

Divination via decks of cards

Question 40

Skosh

Answer 40

A smidgen

Question 41

Berth

Answer 41

A bunk on a ship

Question 42

Prang

Answer 42

To crash

Question 43

Adynation

Answer 43

a figure of speech in the form of hyperbole taken to such extreme lengths as to insinuate a complete impossibility Ex. "I will sooner have a beard grow in the palm of my hand than he shall get one on his cheek."