English word of the day

Definition: (noun) A heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone. Synonyms: pounder, muller. Usage: Sometimes she might have been seen … kneading poee-poee with terrific vehemence, dashing the stone pestle about as if she would shiver the vessel into fragments.

Definition: (noun) A large entrance or reception room or area. Synonyms: foyer, lobby, vestibule, hall. Usage: The butler had me wait in the anteroom while he went to get the master of the house.

Definition: (noun) An oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water. Synonyms: calean, chicha, hubble-bubble, kalian, narghile, shisha, water pipe. Usage: Though I constantly lecture him about the dangers of smoking, my Iranian grandfather refuses to get rid of his hookah.