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.
INSTAR
instar
(noun) an insect or other arthropod between molts
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
instar (plural instars)
Any one of the several stages of postembryonic development which an arthropod undergoes, between molts, before it reaches sexual maturity.
An arthropod at a specified one of these stages of development.
(by extension) A stage in development.
Etymology 2
Verb
instar (third-person singular simple present instars, present participle instarring, simple past and past participle instarred)
(transitive, archaic) To stud or adorn with stars or other brilliants; to star.
(transitive) To make a star of; set as a star.
Anagrams
• S-train, Sartin, Strain, Tarins, Trains, atrins, santir, sartin, starin', strain, tairns, tarins, trains
Source: Wiktionary
In*star", v. t.
Definition: To stud as with stars. [R.] "A golden throne instarred with gems." J. Barlow.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DOOMED
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
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