Plain brewed coffee contains almost no calories, while coffee with dairy products, sugar, and other flavorings is much higher in calories. An espresso has 20 calories. A nonfat latte has 72, while a flavored one has 134.
EXPEDIENCIES
Noun
expediencies
plural of expediency
Source: Wiktionary
EXPEDIENCY
Ex*pe"di*ence, Ex*pe"di*en*cy,, n.
1. The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self- interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude. Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice. Cogan. To determine concerning the expedience of action. Sharp. Much declamation may be heard in the present day against expediency, as if it were not the proper object of a deliberative assembly, and as if it were only pursued by the unprincipled. Whately.
2. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Obs.] Making hither with all due expedience. Shak.
3. An expedition; enterprise; adventure. [Obs.] Forwarding this dear expedience. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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