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.
FLATTERY
flattery
(noun) excessive or insincere praise
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
flattery (countable and uncountable, plural flatteries)
(uncountable) Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour.
(countable) An instance of excessive praise.
Synonyms
• See also flattery
Anagrams
• flat tyre
Source: Wiktionary
Flat"ter*y, n.; pl. Flatteries. Etym: [OE. flaterie, OF. flaterie, F. flaterie, fr. flater to flatter, F. flatter; of uncertain origin. See Flatter, v. t.]
Definition: The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. Burke.
Syn.
– Adulation; compliment; obsequiousness. See Adulation.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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REPLACEMENT
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
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