Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
INSINCERITY
insincerity, falseness, hollowness
(noun) the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
insincerity (countable and uncountable, plural insincerities)
Property of being insincere, lacking sincerity or truthfulness.
Antonyms
• sincerity
Source: Wiktionary
In`sin*cer"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. insincérité.]
Definition: The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions of regard. What men call policy and knowledge of the world, is commonly no other thing than dissimulation and insincerity. Blair.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ACERVULUS
(noun) small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi
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