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For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

The so-called “thieves’ cant” was a (i) language created by thieves, beggars, and swindlers in England in the 1530s to allow them to communicate without the authorities knowing what was going on. Although the cant was widely used by criminal subcultures five hundred years ago, it is now mostly (ii) , found only in literature and fantasy role-playing games.

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clandestine

bourgeois

sacrilegious

Blank (ii)

obsolete

pervasive

contemporary

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