56. Use the word in capitals to form a word that fits into the space.

The word "jargon" can be traced to 14th century Old French, but the actual origin is unknown. One current or modern …1… of jargon is “an outlandish, technical language of a particular profession, group, or trade.”

Jargon is an integral part of the network of …2… and pursuits constituting society. It is commonly used by groups that have a similar interest, like trades and/or professions. Most people associate jargon with the medical or law professions rather than everyday …3… . However, it can be used by people involved in sports or other casual groups. It is not unknown for people to use jargon to leave an …4… of intelligence or to confuse a …5… .

Jargon gives a person a sense of belonging to a specific group which implies …6… of strangers from a conversation. For example, someone going for a job interview at a bank or financial institution, would use banking terminology, thus banking jargon to show their expertise in the field.

It is the jargon element, which in a job, can promote economy and precision of …7…, and thus improve life for the workers. Jargon-users tend to enjoy the in-jokes which shared linguistic experience permits. Moreover, jealousy of this knowledge precipitates our …8… to demean anyone who tries to be part of our group without being prepared to take on its jargon. And we resent it when some other group, sensing our lack of linguistic …9…, refuses to let us in.

Though, a jargonaut, one who studies jargon, may claim that jargon was invented simply as a professional shorthand, developed out of …10… rather than intentional trickiness.

1. DEFINE

2. OCCUPY

3. CONVERSE

4. IMPRESS

5. LISTEN

6. EXCLUDE

7. EXPRESS

8. READY

9. AWARE

10. CONVENIENT

Clothing Signals

Wearing clothes always involves…(1)… social signals. Every costume tells a story, often a subtle one, about its …(2)…. Even those people who insist that they …(3)… attention to clothing, and dress as casually as possible, are …(4)… quite specific comments on their social roles and their attitudes towards the culture in which they live.

The modern trend in dressing behaviour is usually …(5)… to as one of increased informality, but this is misleading. In reality, there is no …(6)… of formality, merely the exchange of old formalities for new. The wearing of a pair of jeans by a young male today is as much of a formality as was the wearing of a top hat by his equivalent in a …(7)… epoch. He may feel that he is free to wear anything he …(8)…, and is rid at last of the suffocating rules of costume etiquette that once …(9)… social life, but what he wears is as much a uniform today as the costumes of his predecessors were in earlier times. The written rules of yesterday may have been scrapped, but they have rapidly been …(10)… by the unwritten rules of today.

Displaying the latest mode indicates not only the social …(11)… of the individual but also the …(12)… to pay for new clothes at regular intervals, and therefore has its own special status …(13)… .

Unconsciously, we read off the many signals that our companions’ clothes transmit to us in every …(14)… encounter. In this way clothing is as much a part of human …(15)… language as gestures, facial expressions and postures.