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Monday, January 1, 2001
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Oxymoron
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Oxymoron: a pairing of contradictory or incongruous words. Examples:
acute dullness home office player coach
almost perfect idiot savant pretty ugly
bad health instant classic qualified success
bittersweet intense apathy randomly organized
blameless culprit jumbo shrimp real potential
cardinal sin justifiably paranoid rock opera
clearly confused larger half rolling stop
conservative liberal least favorite same difference
definite maybe liquid gas silent scream
deliberately thoughtless mild interest sweet sorrow
even odds modern history terribly enjoyable
exact estimate nonalcoholic beer tragic comedy
fish farm normal deviation unbiased opinion
freezer burn old news unsung hero
friendly takeover only choice vaguely aware
genuine imitation open secret war games
good grief original copies working vacation
holy war passively aggressive
See Problem Box under Oxymoron for additional examples
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LCLCPL
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