English word of the day

Definition: (verb) Give or delegate power or authority to. Synonyms: authorize. Usage: The army is now empowered to operate on a shoot-to-kill basis.

Definition: (noun) The lush appearance of flourishing vegetation. Synonyms: greenness. Usage: Midsummer eve had come, bringing deep verdure to the forest, and roses in her lap, of a more vivid hue than the tender buds of Spring.

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.