Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. It’s also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.
PRETENTIOUSNESS
pretentiousness, pretension, largeness
(noun) the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation
(noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
pretentiousness (countable and uncountable, plural pretentiousnesses)
The quality of being pretentious.
Source: Wiktionary
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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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