Word: jargonizing
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...someone over 30, "rapping" just means knocking on wood; so steer away from contemporary jargon, a semantic roadblock that can easily alienate those who don't understand it. N.B.: lay off the word "fascist" unless you're describing Mussolini...
...professionals, she found, were a ludicrously earnest lot. "I come across as a human being," one of them soberly assured her. Their jargon was tiresome-they were always "resonating," "actualizing," "peaking," or having "gut reactions"-and their cult of the body seemed prejudicial to a girl who had always been more at home in her head...
...essays are formal and abstract. They redefine polities as an endeavor to reconcile the maximum amount of personal honor with group solidarity. In a more cosmic sense, they re-evaluate citizenship and dissent in conceiving man as a striver for moaning through politics. Despite lapses into existentialist jargon. Walzer's "political journalism." belongs to the most lucid order of scholarship...
...findings of the anonymous researcher have any scientific value? "It seems," he concludes in proper scientific jargon, "that beard growth in a man is a much-neglected parameter of hormone activity that can readily be quantified...
...average had fallen 33 points to a seven-year low of 685. On Friday, prices rallied briskly enough to send the Dow average up 17 points to 702. The rise stirred some cautious chatter among brokers and analysts that the market might be, in Wall Street's convoluted jargon, "bottoming...