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diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
index fafed83fba..d124eb0e9a 100644
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ It consist of calls to the pthread library (more specifically, pthread_self(), p
 .. note::
 
     Initialization of objects, such as memory zones, rings, memory pools, lpm tables and hash tables,
-    should be done as part of the overall application initialization on the master lcore.
+    should be done as part of the overall application initialization on the main lcore.
     The creation and initialization functions for these objects are not multi-thread safe.
     However, once initialized, the objects themselves can safely be used in multiple threads simultaneously.
 
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ very dependent on the memory allocation patterns of the application.
 
 Additional restrictions are present when running in 32-bit mode. In dynamic
 memory mode, by default maximum of 2 gigabytes of VA space will be preallocated,
-and all of it will be on master lcore NUMA node unless ``--socket-mem`` flag is
+and all of it will be on main lcore NUMA node unless ``--socket-mem`` flag is
 used.
 
 In legacy mode, VA space will only be preallocated for segments that were
@@ -407,12 +407,12 @@ device having emitted a Device Removal Event. In such case, calling
 callback. Care must be taken not to close the device from the interrupt handler
 context. It is necessary to reschedule such closing operation.
 
-Blacklisting
-~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Block list
+~~~~~~~~~~
 
-The EAL PCI device blacklist functionality can be used to mark certain NIC ports as blacklisted,
+The EAL PCI device block list functionality can be used to mark certain NIC ports as unavailable,
 so they are ignored by the DPDK.
-The ports to be blacklisted are identified using the PCIe* description (Domain:Bus:Device.Function).
+The ports to be blocked are identified using the PCIe* description (Domain:Bus:Device.Function).
 
 Misc Functions
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ devices would fail anyway.
     - By default, the mempool, first asks for IOVA-contiguous memory using
       ``RTE_MEMZONE_IOVA_CONTIG``. This is slow in RTE_IOVA_PA mode and it may
       affect the application boot time.
-    - It is easy to enable large amount of IOVA-contiguous memory use-cases
+    - It is easy to enable large amount of IOVA-contiguous memory use cases
       with IOVA in VA mode.
 
     It is expected that all PCI drivers work in both RTE_IOVA_PA and
@@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ controlled with tools like taskset (Linux) or cpuset (FreeBSD),
 - with affinity restricted to 2-4, the Control Threads will end up on
   CPU 4.
 - with affinity restricted to 2-3, the Control Threads will end up on
-  CPU 2 (master lcore, which is the default when no CPU is available).
+  CPU 2 (main lcore, which is the default when no CPU is available).
 
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