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WordBand 7–8Toofey picks
jargon
/ˈdʒɑːɡən/
noun
Special words used by one profession that others find hard to follow.
- “The report was full of technical jargon that few readers understood.”Toofey
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Source: Written for Toofey (original); IPA generated with eSpeak NG (GPL-3.0 (software))