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.
LABILE
labile
(adjective) liable to change; “an emotionally labile person”
labile
(adjective) (chemistry, physics, biology) readily undergoing change or breakdown
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
labile (comparative more labile, superlative most labile)
Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
Apt or likely to change.
Synonym: unstable
(chemistry, of a compound or bond) Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed).
(linguistics, of a verb) Able to change valency without changing its form; especially, able to be used both transitively and intransitively without changing its form.
Anagrams
• Belial, Biella, alible, liable
Source: Wiktionary
La"bile, a. Etym: [L. labilis apt to slip, fr. labi to slip.]
Definition: Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize. [Obs.] Cheyne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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TYPIFY
(verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of; “The fugue typifies Bach’s style of composition”
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