1. incorporeity — quality of being incorporeal, lack of material existence
Proofs of the incorporeity of his supposed evidence only seem to have confirmed in him an almost mystical credence in the tyrant’s lies.
2. circumverbalistic — of the design or creation of crossword puzzles; of the solving of crossword puzzles
Braithwaithe proved the full extent of his cruciverbalistic skills during the Cold War, when he used his weekly puzzle in the Sunday paper to send covert messages to his masters in the Kremlin, a fact that was only discovered by a fellow crosswords aficionado who spotted the coded messages in the clues.
3. knacker — [British] one who buys carcasses or slaughters useless livestock for a rendering works
All my dreams are exhausted, and I’m about ready to consign them to the knacker’s yard so that I can just get on with my life.
4. chautauqua — assembly for social education and entertainment, originally held in Chautauqua, New York each summer in late 19th and early 20th centuries
The Prosperity Gospel preachers and their (slightly) more profane counterparts can trace their lineage back to the wildly popular chautauquas of Middle America and such stirring speeches as the “Acres of Diamonds” of Reverend Conwell.
5. ravin — [archaic] to seek plunder or prey, to eat voraciously; act of plundering or seizing food
Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
[Genesis 49:27 (KJV)]
6. swinge — [archaic] to flog, to thrash, to punish
“I’ll swinge you good and proper if you don’t come here this instant, boy!”
7. swingeing — large, great, severe, extreme
All the voters in this region suffer from swingeing cuts in services while job losses are mounting ever higher.
8. verst — Russian measure of length equal to about two-thirds of a mile
The state of the road was so bad that it was possible only to ride for two versts, three at the most, before we became mired in the mud once more and had to disembark to manhandle the car out of the ooze.
9. mammer — [obsolete] to stammer, to mutter; to hesitate, to vacillate
Now he stands mammering where once he spoke forthrightly; thus has one misstep left him bereft of all boldness.
10. ligate — to tie up, to bind with a ligature
After you have filled the casing, ligate the sausage using a butcher’s knot for hanging in the drying room.
Bonus Vocabulary
(British)
lamping — hunting at night using lights
To some extent the prey may be startled by the bright lights, or even may sit motionless staring into the beam, but the predominant appeal to the weak hunter who prefers lamping is the fact that many animals’ eyes shine brightly at night when artificial light hits them, making the beasts easier prey.