words and phrases that crop up alot in academia and which are either overused or which often have diabolical connotations
--- diabolical
progress
it is not clear that ____ (means "i disagree with ____ and you have insufficient evidence")
we're finding that ____ (means "I always thought ____ and now I think I have more evidence for it, and if I state it as if it is the consensus there is a chance it will be a self-fulfilling prophesy")
overused
"would seem to suggest" ( = "says that")
domain ( = "area") (other synonyms, almost as bad: "arena", "region") (etymological guess: trying to sound like math?)
isomorphism ( = "analogy") (etymological guess: trying to sound like math?)
"low-hanging fruit" ( = "the easy stuff")