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Word of the Day for Saturday, June 25, 2011torrefy \TAWR-uh-fahy\, verb: 1. To subject to fire or intense heat. A coffee-roaster answers for this purpose, taking care not to torrefy them too much, as the oil of the nut suffers thereby, and it becomes a dark brown or black, grows bitter, and spoils the colour of the chocolate The eloquence of statesmen will not sear War's naked wounds, nor may one torrefy / The solemn lines of a gifted sonneteer. Torrefy stems from the two Latin roots torrēre "to dry up" and facere "to put, or make so." | |||||||||
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  Do names prejudice how others perceive your status? A study suggests yesAre you a Samuel or a Travis, a Katherine or an Amber? According to a recent study conducted on 89 undergraduate students, a person's socioeconomic and educational standing may be in direct correlation with a person's name. While researchers point out that a person's essence, status, and general fatecannot possibly be defined based on the... | |||||||||
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