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.
MORGUE
morgue, mortuary, dead room
(noun) a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
morgue (plural morgues)
A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
The archive and background information division of a newspaper.
Synonyms
• (place for corpses): See mortuary
Source: Wiktionary
Morgue, n. Etym: [F.]
Definition: A place where the bodies of persons found dead are exposed, that they may be identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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