单项选择题

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