6 March

Question 1

peruse

Answer 1

read (something), typically in a thorough or careful way.

examine carefully or at length.

Question 2

trove

Answer 2

a store of valuable or delightful things.

Question 3

parse

Answer 3

resolve (a sentence) into its component parts and describe their syntactic roles.
to divide (a sentence) into grammatical parts and identify the parts and their relations to each other

Question 4

far cry from

Answer 4

very different experience from something

Question 5

tell somebody off

Answer 5

speak angrily to someone for doing something wrong

Question 6

cotinuum

Answer 6

a coherent whole characterized as a collection, sequence, or progression of values or elements varying by minute degrees “good” and “bad”
a continuous sequence in which adjacent elements are not perceptibly different from each other, but the extremes are quite distinct.

Question 7

ejectment

Answer 7

the eviction of a tenant from property.

the process by which an evicted tenant seeks to recover possession and damages.

Question 8

detinue

Answer 8

the crime of wrongful detention of goods or personal possessions (replaced in the UK by the tort of wrongful interference of goods).