An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
AGONIC
Etymology 1
Adjective
agonic (not comparable)
(geometry) Lacking an angle.
(cartography, navigation) Having a magnetic deviation of zero.
synonym of agonal
Noun
agonic (plural agonics)
synonym of agonic line.
Etymology 2
Adjective
agonic (not comparable)
Characterized by agony.
(psychology) Of a mode of social interaction based on threats, displays of power, or inducements of anxiety.
Antonym: hedonic
(medicine, obsolete) Occurring shortly before death; agonal.
Anagrams
• Gaonic
Source: Wiktionary
A*gon"ic, a. Etym: [Gr.
Definition: Not forming an angle. Agonic line (Physics), an imaginary line on the earth's surface passing through those places where the magnetic needle points to the true north; the line of no magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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