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This board helps players review Technical Jargon through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Legal Lingo, Medical Speak, Business Buzzwords, Tech Acronyms, Academic Clichés. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.

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  • Legal Lingo

    This Latin term means work done for the public good without pay by lawyers.

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    pro bono

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  • Medical Speak

    Doctors use this term for high blood pressure.

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    hypertension

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  • Business Buzzwords

    This boardroom buzzword means a combined effect greater than the parts.

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    synergy

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  • Tech Acronyms

    This three-letter acronym refers to the brain of a computer.

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    CPU

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  • Academic Clichés

    This overused phrase means a fundamental change in approach.

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    paradigm shift

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Legal Lingo

$100 — This Latin term means work done for the public good without pay by lawyers.
pro bono
$200 — This writ compels that a detained person be brought before a judge.
habeas corpus
$300 — This phrase means representing oneself in court without a lawyer.
pro se
$400 — This term means the guilty mind required for many crimes.
mens rea
$500 — This doctrine means acting beyond one's legal power.
ultra vires

Medical Speak

$100 — Doctors use this term for high blood pressure.
hypertension
$200 — This clinical term means a noncancerous growth.
benign
$300 — This mouthful is the medical term for a heart attack.
myocardial infarction
$400 — This term refers to the cause or origin of a disease.
etiology
$500 — This adjective means harm caused by medical treatment.
iatrogenic

Business Buzzwords

$100 — This boardroom buzzword means a combined effect greater than the parts.
synergy
$200 — This cliché urges creative thinking beyond obvious limits.
think outside the box
$300 — This gentle term means reducing staff through layoffs.
downsizing
$400 — This trendy verb means make processes leaner and more efficient.
streamline
$500 — This euphemism means shifting work to another company or country.
outsourcing

Tech Acronyms

$100 — This three-letter acronym refers to the brain of a computer.
CPU
$200 — This stands for short-term memory used for active data access.
RAM
$300 — This acronym names the locator for web addresses.
URL
$400 — This protocol underpins most web traffic.
HTTP
$500 — This acronym names a language used to query relational databases.
SQL

Academic Clichés

$100 — This overused phrase means a fundamental change in approach.
paradigm shift
$200 — This stock phrase describes a problem that feeds on itself.
vicious circle
$300 — This filler phrase means in its own right, often needlessly.
in and of itself
$400 — This pompous synonym for method gets overused in papers.
methodology
$500 — This Latinate tag means other things being equal.
ceteris paribus

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