• bowdlerize - to remove parts of an account or text that are deemed offensive
  • junketing - taking an excursion for pleasure
  • voluble - marked by a ready flow of speech
  • parsimonious - excessively unwilling to spend
  • turgid - abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas // American Heritage (3): Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; – especially applied to an enlarged part of the body.
  • pall - a sudden numbing dread
  • torpid - slow and apathetic
  • redound - return or recoil
  • friable - easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder
  • bathyscaphe - navigable deep diving vessel for underwater exploration
  • gangplank - temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside
  • sphericity - the roundness of a three dimensional object

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov

Short story: Waterclap