Everyone knows that human language can be a superb means of communication. Therefore, it can be damnably 【M1】______ misleading, a barrier to people's understanding with each other, and never more so than when names given for the ease of classification are taken to mean more than they 【M2】______ do. If, for instance, they say that this man is white and 【M3】______ that man coloured, we say no more than truth as long 【M4】______ as we understand that we are speaking only of the colour of the skin. We can also make neutral and honest comments such as that 'A' is above average height, has little than the average intelligence, is red- 【M5】______ haired, is born in the north, and is left-handed. The danger raises when we find other men who are white 【M6】______ or coloured, who are tall, stupid, red-haired, northerners, or sinister. It is then we begin to correlate one fact with 【M7】______ another and to make assumptions about other characteristics, which we believe are linked to the features we first observe. So that when we talk about the white or the coloured, 【M8】______ we apt to imply and believe that each adjective tells us 【M9】______ more about the person in the question than it can. We 【M10】______ are making them into portmanteau words into which we have packed our hopes，our wishes，our prejudices and our fears． 【M1】