jargon
Example Sentences
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Yet he also gets a chuckle out of jargon like “mouthfeel” and “bunghole.”
The New York Times’ crossword is synonymous with its current editor, Will Shortz, who gave the puzzle a refresh in the 1990s, jettisoning academic jargon and obscurities in favor of layered puns and pop-culture references.
From Los Angeles Times
They sought to accelerate the acculturation and assimilation of the many immigrants into one people, which, as the Massachusetts political and literary figure Fisher Ames pointed out, meant, “to use the modern jargon, nationalized.”
Like John le Carré, he creates his own jargon: safe houses are “coops,” spycraft is “artifice,” freelance agents are “units” and deep-cover moles are “termites.”
As someone deeply invested in a certain rock lineage — but who writes with a grasp of the emotional jargon of our time — are you glad to be living in an age of therapy-speak?
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
