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.
TERSE
crisp, curt, laconic, terse
(adjective) brief and to the point; effectively cut short; āa crisp retortā; āa response so curt as to be almost rudeā; āthe laconic reply; āyesāā; āshort and terse and easy to understandā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
terse (comparative terser, superlative tersest)
(by extension) Of speech or style: brief, concise, to the point.
Synonyms: concise, succinct, see also concise
Antonyms: prolix, verbose, wordy, see also verbose
(by extension) Of manner or speech: abruptly or brusquely short; curt.
Synonyms: abrupt, brusque, mardy (dialectal), short-spoken
(obsolete) Burnished, polished; fine, smooth; neat, spruce. [from early 17th c.]
Anagrams
• Ester, Reset, Steer, ester, estre, re-est., reest, reset, retes, seter, steer, stere, teers, teres, trees
Source: Wiktionary
Terse, a. [Compar. Terser; superl. Tersest.] Etym: [L. tersus, p.p. of tergere to rub or wipe off.]
1. Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished. [Obs.] Many stones, . . . although terse and smooth, have not this power attractive. Sir T. Browne.
2. Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons. [R. & Obs.] "Your polite and terse gallants." Massinger.
3. Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style. Terse, luminous, and dignified eloquence. Macaulay. A poet, too, was there, whose verse Was tender, musical, and terse. Longfellow.
Syn.
– Neat; concise; compact. Terse, Concise. Terse was defined by Johnson "cleanly written", i. e., free from blemishes, neat or smooth. Its present sense is "free from excrescences," and hence, compact, with smoothness, grace, or elegance, as in the following lones of Whitehead: - "In eight terse lines has PhƦdrus told (So frugal were the bards of old) A tale of goats; and closed with grace, Plan, moral, all, in that short space." It differs from concise in not implying, perhaps, quite as much condensation, but chiefly in the additional idea of "grace or elegance." -- Terse"ly, adv.
– Terse"ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CRITICAL
(adjective) characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; āa critical readingā; āa critical dissertationā; āa critical analysis of Melvilleās writingsā
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