PARACME

Etymology

Noun

paracme (plural paracmes)

A point beyond the highest or greatest.

(medicine) A point after the crisis of a fever is past.

(biology) The decadence of an evolutionary series of organisms after reaching its highest point of development.

Source: Wiktionary



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2 April 2025

COVERT

(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”


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Coffee Trivia

The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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