There are four varieties of commercially viable coffee: Arabica, Liberica, Excelsa, and Robusta. Growers predominantly plant the Arabica species. Although less popular, Robusta tastes slightly more bitter and contains more caffeine.
SUGARCOAT
sugarcoat
(verb) cause to appear more pleasant or appealing; “The mayor did not sugarcoat the reality of the tax cuts”
sugarcoat, glaze, candy
(verb) coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
sugarcoat (third-person singular simple present sugarcoats, present participle sugarcoating, simple past and past participle sugarcoated)
(transitive) To make superficially more attractive; to give a falsely pleasant appearance to.
• There's no way to sugarcoat the loss of the space shuttle; it was an unmitigated disaster.
Synonyms
• gild
• gild the pill
• whitewash
Source: Wiktionary
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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