3
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by j4k3@lemmy.world to c/wotd@lemmy.world
  • 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

no comments (yet)
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
there doesn't seem to be anything here
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2024
3 points (100.0% liked)

Word of the Day

133 readers
2 users here now

This is a place to post words you read and had to look up or simply enjoyed the rare word drop in something you read.

Post only the word(s) in the title bar, and the definition(s) in the post body along with the title/author of what you were reading when you encountered it. Posts are not intended as book reviews, but the comments section is free game.

The intention here is to expand vocabulary, motivate more active reading, and to see what others are reading. Please do not comment critically about the reading or vocabulary of others here. This is a place for English words from anyone of any age, background, or native language.

If you have an Android device and use F-Droid for free and open source, ad free apps, Galnet Dictionary is a free, offline dictionary for your device (not just an API for a service).

founded 9 months ago
MODERATORS