Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
PROPHESY
preach, prophesy
(verb) deliver a sermon; “The minister is not preaching this Sunday”
prophesy, vaticinate
(verb) predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
prophesy (third-person singular simple present prophesies, present participle prophesying, simple past and past participle prophesied)
To speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet. [from 14th c.]
To predict, to foretell (with or without divine inspiration). [from 14th c.]
To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.
(intransitive, Christianity) To speak out on the Bible as an expression of holy inspiration; to preach. [from 14th c.]
Source: Wiktionary
Proph"e*sy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prophesied; p. pr. & vb. n. Prophesying.] Etym: [See Prophecy.]
1. To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate. He doth not prophesy good concerning me. 1 Kings xxii. 8. Then I perceive that will be verified Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy. Shak.
2. To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure. Methought thy very gait did prophesy A royal nobleness; I must embrace thee. Shak.
Proph"e*sy, v. i.
1. To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come. Matt. xv. 7.
2. To give instruction in religious matters; to interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to preach; to exhort; to expound. Ezek. xxxvii. 7.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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