Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
ABJECTION
abasement, degradation, abjection
(noun) a low or downcast state; “each confession brought her into an attitude of abasement”- H.L.Menchken
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
abjection (countable and uncountable, plural abjections)
A low or downcast condition; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]
(obsolete, chiefly, figuratively) Something cast off; garbage. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 16th century.]
(obsolete) The act of bringing down or humbling; casting down. [Attested from the early 16th century until the mid 17th century.]
(obsolete) The act of casting off; rejection. [Attested from the early 17th century until the mid 17th century.]
(biology, mycology) The act of dispersing or casting off spores.
Source: Wiktionary
Ab*jec"tion, n. Etym: [F. abjection, L. abjectio.]
1. The act of bringing down or humbling. "The abjection of the king and his realm." Joe.
2. The state of being rejected or cast out. [R.] An adjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever. Jer. Taylor.
3. A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. That this should be termed baseness, abjection of mind, or servility, is it credible Hooker.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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BACKFIRE
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
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