女神殿

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.


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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