Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
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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COMMUNICATIONS
(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”
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