Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Oxymorons

These are lexical items made up of two parts which are seemingly contradictory.

Examples:
· Act naturally
· Found missing
· Minor catastrophe
· Near miss
· Great depression
· Genuine imitation
· Same difference
· Almost exactly
· Sensitive man
· Government organization
· Everything except
· Alone together
· Silent scream
· Living dead
· Small crowd
· Soft rock
· New classic
· Sweet sorrow
· "now, then"
· Synthetic natural gas
· Passive aggressive
· Taped live
· Clearly misunderstood
· Peace force
· New and improved
· Plastic glasses
· Terribly pleased
· Definitely maybe
· Pretty ugly
· Diet ice cream
· Rap music
· Working vacation
· Exact estimate
· Loners club
· Artificial grass
· Authentic replica
· Crash landing
· Extinct life
· Fairly accurate
· Decaffeinated coffee

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