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Oximoron

Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:46 pm
by goatass
ox·y·mo·ron Audio pronunciation of "oxymoron" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ks-môrn, -mr-)
n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra (-môr, -mr) or ox·y·mo·rons

A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist.

Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 4:56 pm
by complexity
i think, everyone knows this word