Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
REFLATE
reflate
(verb) become inflated again
reflate
(verb) inflate again; “reflate the balloon”
reflate
(verb) economics: raise demand, expand the money supply, or raise prices, after a period of deflation; “These measures reflated the economy”
reflate
(verb) economics: experience reflation; “The economy reflated after the Fed took extreme measures”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
reflate (third-person singular simple present reflates, present participle reflating, simple past and past participle reflated)
To reinflate, to inflate again.
(economics) To restore the general level of prices to a previous or desirable level.
Source: Wiktionary
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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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