What word fits best? WASHINGTON, DC-A emergency report released with (adulation, arduousness, austerity, celerity) by the Union of Concerned Dietitians stated that not only will the temperature of coffee increase
by nearly nine degrees by the end of this century, but also that the rise is directly (assimilated,
disdained, fomented, assuaged) by human activity. "At this point, there is no way to reverse the trend,
but we can
(reprove, mitigate, volatile, bastion) its effects," said UCD President Marilyn
Presber, who blamed the rising temperature on corporate coffee "super-heaters" such as Starbucks,
McDonald's, and Dunkin' Donuts, and added that if the public proceeded with (alacrity, ancillary,
prolixity, congeniality) to heat water short of its boiling point and pour "extremely chilled" milk into the
beverage, the overall temperature increase could be delayed nearly 150 years. "If we don't make some
(apathetic, scrupulous, austere, efficacious) sacrifices now, our children's children will be
living in a world in which it will be virtually impossible to avoid having the inside of their mouths burned."
However, many Americans remain skeptical of the coffee-heating issue, such as Tampa, FL coffee drinker
Henry Giesen, 67who calls it "an) (arduous, earnest, languid, flagrant)" hoax perpetuated by the
anti-caffeine lobby and the (iniquitous, incredulous, extraneous, scrupulous)"
carbonated-beverage industry."