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DEFINITION: (adjective) Spacious; roomy. SYNONYMS: convenient. USAGE: The accommodations were commodious, and we had plenty of room to store our belongings.

Four or more cups of coffee a day appear to reduce the risk of gout, a painful joint disorder caused by a buildup of uric acid in the blood. University of British Columbia researchers found that people who drank four or more cups of coffee a day were more likely to have a much lower uric acid level in the blood compared with those who drank one or fewer cups. Tea had no measurable effect, but decaffeinated coffee did, suggesting that the active ingredient was not caffeine.

Porcelain is a white, hard, nonporous pottery which is resonant when struck. It was first made by the Chinese to withstand the great heat generated in certain parts of their kilns. The two natural substances used were kaolin and a feldspar mineral called petuntse that forms a glassy cement. In Europe porcelain was first commercially produced in the early 1700s. Most of the European porcelain is soft paste and is not as strong as the Chinese hard-paste porcelain. What is bone china?