Help with background references, registers and humour

1. [Match]

What’s in a word? Spot the field and the nuance!

Answers for Quiz [1].

• 1. a phrase which echoes the indexing system in libraries (correct)
• 2. person central in the christian faith, the mother of Jesus Christ (correct)
• 3. a suburb of London (correct)
• 4. a newspaper devoted to horse-racing (correct)
• 6. from the field of medicine, a typically heavy and dry-sounding medical reference book (correct)
• 6. an idiom drawn from the Christian faith meaning someone is faced with a difficult, unpleasant or painful situation or person that he/she has to accept and deal with (correct)
• 8. term used in a hospital or school for a senior nursing officer responsible for a large number of patients (correct)
• 8. a man who is accorded considerable deference (slightly facetious or ironic) (correct)
• 10. It is almost incredible (correct)
• 10. a junior doctor who is still training, and who works in a hospital (correct)
• 11. a humorous formulation which emphasises the humble, lowly status of the speaker and the elevated status of the person addressed (correct)
• 12. a term with connotations of the entourage of a royal court (correct)
• 13. serving the tea (humorous) (correct)
• 14. formal –a room (rather upper-class) where guests are entertained (correct)
• 15. a literary reference recalling the phrase ‘Reader, I married him’ from Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë. (correct)
• 16. hyperbolic, a slightly archaic phrase for humorous effect meaning he had done something wonderful (correct)