1. evert — to turn outward or inside out
And so everted has the American Dream become that we are sated by likes and follows and bundles of steam and dark mode.
2. ophiophagous — eating snakes
When I interned among the ophiophagous lawyers then practicing in Albany, I thought of the experience as an anthropological adventure.
3. humbug — [British] striped hard candy, usu. peppermint flavored
Chumley was never without a pocket full of humbugs, claiming they acted as a cough suppressant when out on a job.
4. fox — to discolor, to become spotted
The brittle and foxed endpapers had some faint inscription upon them, but the aged ink no longer could be read by the naked eye.
5. appetence (British appetency) — longing, desire; instinctive inclination
Socrates seems to have believed that the appetence for the good is inherent in mankind, though later philosophers have found this a difficult tenet to credit.
6. evanish — to vanish, to disappear
Though the crepuscular and ruddy rays of the sun lingered long after its passing, they too evanished after a while and we suddenly found ourselves shivering and lost in the dark.
7. inapt — inappropriate, not suitable; incapable, unskillful
The comparison was so inapt that I suspected that Ricardo was trying to squeeze a reference to the Marvel Cinematic Universe into our discussion on the use of dolphin imagery in the poetry of Yeats.
8. dulcify — to sweeten; to mollify
While I once would have dulcified my upset by smoking a cigar, now even that was denied me.
9. doublet — close-fitting padded jacket worn by men, with or without sleeves
His leathern doublet was far from the latest fashion, descending almost to the tops of his boots which themselves were far too short of the knees.
10. vermeil — vermillion, bright red; gilt silver or bronze
Now finally the angry iron clanging of the battle had ceased, and the anguished cries of the wounded and dying moaned across the field under the darkening vermeil skies.
Bonus Vocabulary
(slang)
office — tip-off, warning
Joey had given me the office that The Shark would be carrying two hundred large on the train, payoff to the West Coast boys for their part in the Leaventon job.