An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
SYNESIS
Etymology
Noun
synesis (usually uncountable, plural syneses)
(grammar) A grammatical construction in which a word takes the gender or number not of the word with which it should regularly agree, but of some other implied word, as in: "If the band are popular, they will play next month."
(philosophy) The faculty of good judgment or comprehension, passive intelligence.
Synonyms
• (grammar): constructio ad sensum
Anagrams
• Sisneys
Source: Wiktionary
Syn"e*sis, n. [Gr. intelligence.] (Gram.)
Definition: A construction in which adherence to some element in the sense causes a departure from strict syntax, as in "Philip went down to Samaria and preached Christ unto them."
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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BARGAIN
(noun) an advantageous purchase; “she got a bargain at the auction”; “the stock was a real buy at that price”
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