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oxymoron

An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines incongruous or contradictory terms. The plural is oxymorons or oxymora.

An oximoron can be made of an adjective and a noun * dark light, deafening silence, living dead etc.). Oximorons can also be a combination of a noun and a verb (the silence whistles etc.).

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