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.
DEFEASIBLE
defeasible
(adjective) capable of being annulled or voided or terminated; “a claim to an estate may be defeasible so long as the claimant is under 21 and unmarried”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
defeasible (comparative more defeasible, superlative most defeasible)
(legal, logic) Capable of being defeated, terminated, annulled, voided or invalidated.
Source: Wiktionary
De*fea"si*ble, a. Etym: [See Defeasance.]
Definition: Capable of being annulled or made void; as, a defeasible title.
– De*fea"si*ble*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INITIALISM
(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”
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