A Cup of Coffee?

Words in Use (Lesson 17)

• appeal
• addict
• wary
• aware
• misfortune
• avoid
• wretched
• keg
• nourish
• harsh
• quantity
• opt

Read the following passage to see how the new words are used in it.
  
A Cup of Coffee?
The drink with the most appeal for Americans is still coffee, but coffee addicts had better be wary of the instant forms. Greedy for customers and confident* they won't lose them, companies will put their product in any instant form—liquid, powder, chips—and the coffee drinker, aware of his misfortune, finds it hard to avoid some of the more wretched instant products. The harsh fact is that an enormous* quantity of instant coffee is being sold, no doubt,* to nourish the popular demand for convenience. A keg of real coffee may become a museum piece as more and more people opt for instant coffee.