There are four varieties of commercially viable coffee: Arabica, Liberica, Excelsa, and Robusta. Growers predominantly plant the Arabica species. Although less popular, Robusta tastes slightly more bitter and contains more caffeine.
EXEMPTING
Verb
exempting
present participle of exempt
Source: Wiktionary
EXEMPT
Ex*empt", a. Etym: [F. exempt, L. exemptus, p. p. of eximere to take out, remove, free; ex out + emere to buy, take. Cf. Exon, Redeem.]
1. Cut off; set apart. [Obs.] Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry. Shak.
2. Extraordinary; exceptional. [Obs.] Chapman.
3. Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; -- (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service. True nobility is exempt from fear. Shak. T is laid on all, not any one exempt. Dryden.
Ex*empt", n.
1. One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.
2. One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon. [Eng.]
Ex*empt", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exempted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exempting.] Etym: [F. exempter. See Exempt, a.]
1. To remove; to set apart. [Obs.] Holland.
2. To release or deliver from some liability which others are subject to; to except or excuse from he operation of a law; to grant immunity to; to free from obligation; to release; as, to exempt from military duty, or from jury service; to exempt from fear or pain. Death So snatched will not exempt us from the pain We are by doom to pay. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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TEMPORIZE
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