• 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