【单选题】

The language of the bureaucrats and administrators must needs be recognized as ------- of legal parlance, for there is no other way to explain its pedantic, ------- and pernicious style.
A．(A) an outgrowth … pervicacious

B．(B) a visitation … rotten
C．(C) a rejection … vitriolic
D．(D) a permutation … heedless
E．(E) a divagation … rapturous