Parlance

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–noun 

1. a way or manner of speaking; vernacular (本國語) ; idiom: legal parlance. 

2. speech, esp. a formal discussion or debate. 

3. talk; parley. (與敵方的) 談判





In common parlance, a devil's advocate is someone who takes a position, sometimes one he or she disagrees with, for the sake of argument. This process can be used to test the quality of the original argument and identify weaknesses in its structure.





　

Introduced in a series of columns in the U.K.'s Independent, Fielding's lovably imperfect Bridget, 



with her incessant calorie counting, cigarette smoking 

and [wine]-swilling, 



[inflected] the British vernacular with a personal lexicon that 



divided her community into "Singletons" and "Smug-marrieds." Little surprise, then, that the unlikely casting of American thesp Renee Zellweger over British actresses caused a [row] not seen since 



Tom Cruise [donned] [fangs] to play the vampire Lestat.





don

Heath Ledger [dons] the ghoulishly gleeful 

Joker [makeup] previously worn by Jack Nicholson and Cesar Romero.



mnemonic

semantic

purport

parlance 

a way or manner of speaking

legal [parlance]

parse 

analyze in terms of grammatical constituents

it’s unclear if it’s a [tic] or if he’s [parsing] his words as carefully as possible. 

Castigate



larynx

jugular

throat or (veins of) neck

The defense attorney went right for the jugular 

by attempting to [destroy] the witness's credibility. 

Fray