Peter Sokolowski
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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It's the word of the day podcast for August eighteenth.
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Today's word is oxymoron, spelled O XY M O R O N.
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Oxymoron is a noun.
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And oxymoron is a combination of words that have opposite or very different meanings, such as cruel kindness or open secret.
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In broader usage, oxymoron can also refer to something, such as a concept, that is made up of contradictory or incongruous elements.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from Hello magazine.
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Even the most environmentally aware beauty editors I know, perhaps that's an oxymoron given the amount of product we have to test for our jobs, use sheet masks on a weekly basis.
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And the trend is showing no signs of slowing.
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The ancient Greeks exhaustively classified the elements of rhetoric or effective speech and writing, and gave the name oxymoron, literally pointed foolishness, to the deliberate juxtaposing of seemingly contradictory words.
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The roots of oxymoron, oxys meaning sharp or keen, and moros meaning foolish, are nearly antonyms themselves, making oxymoron.
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Oxymoron nicely self-descriptive.
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Oxymoron originally applied to a meaningful paradox condensed into a couple of words, as in lonely crowd or sweet sorrow.
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Today, however, what is commonly cited as an oxymoron is often simply a curiosity of language, where one or both elements have multiple meanings, as in shrimp or
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From jumbo shrimp, which doesn't mean small, it refers to a sea creature.
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Or a phrase whose elements seem antithetical in spirit, such as organized chaos.
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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It's the word of the day for August seventeenth.
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