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.
TREPIDATION
trepidation
(noun) a feeling of alarm or dread
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
trepidation (countable and uncountable, plural trepidations)
A fearful state; a state of concern or hesitation.
Synonyms: agitation, apprehension, consternation, fear, hesitation, worry
An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.
(astronomy, obsolete) A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars.
Anagrams
• departition, partitioned
Source: Wiktionary
Trep`i*da"tion, n. Etym: [F. trépidation, L. trepidatio, fr. trepidare to hurry with alarm, to tremble, from trepidus agitated, disturbed, alarmed; cf. trepit he turns, Gr. torture.]
1. An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.
2. Hence, a state of terror or alarm; fear; confusion; fright; as, the men were in great trepidation.
3. (Anc. Astron.)
Definition: A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars.
Syn.
– Tremor; agitation; disturbance; fear.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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