Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between serious and spurious scholarship is an easy one to blur, with jargon on your side. - David Lehman

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David Lehman: "Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between serious and spurious scholarship is an easy one to blur, with jargon on your side."

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Fashionable	Frivolous	Gives	Hand
Ideas	Jargon	Line	Makes
Newly	Novelty	Profundity	Scholarship
Seem	Serious	Side	Sleight
Specious	Spurious	Stale	Stated
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