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.
EFFICACIOUS
effective, effectual, efficacious
(adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect; “an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch’s broomstick for rapid long-distance transportation”-LewisMumford; “effective teaching methods”; “effective steps toward peace”; “made an effective entrance”; “his complaint proved to be effectual in bringing action”; “an efficacious law”
efficacious
(adjective) marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect; “written propaganda is less efficacious than the habits and prejudices...of the readers”-Aldous Huxley; “the medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
efficacious (comparative more efficacious, superlative most efficacious)
(formal) Effective; possessing efficacy. [from 1520s]
Synonym: effective
Antonym: inefficacious
Source: Wiktionary
Ef`fi*ca"cious, a. Etym: [L. eficax, -acis, fr. efficere. See Effect, n.]
Definition: Possessing the quality of being effective; productive of, or powerful to produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious law.
Syn.
– See Effectual.
– Ef`fi*ca"cious*ly, adv.
– Ef`fi*ca"cious*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CATCH
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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