Oxymoron - a literary figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory words, terms, phrases or ideas are combined to create a rhetorical effect by paradoxical means. (like JUMBO SHRIMP)

  • academic fraternity

  • alone in a crowd

  • bitter sweet

  • co-ed fraternity

  • cold sweat

  • cold heat

  • cowardly lion

  • conspicuously absent

  • considerate boss

  • fight for peace

  • freezer burn

  • free labor

  • flying fish

  • first annual

  • fried ice cream

  • friendly fire

  • government organization

  • graphite irons

  • graphite woods

  • harmonious discord

  • hollow point

  • holy war

  • home office

  • home school

  • homework

  • honest crook

  • house boat

  • Icy Hot

  • horse fly

  • Idiot Savant

  • intimate strangers

  • jumbo shrimp

  • less is more

  • liberal conservative

  • light traffic

  • minor disaster

  • minor miracle

  • mobile home

  • modern history

  • non-dairy creamer

  • normal human

  • numbing sensation

  • paper towel

  • passive aggressive

  • poor rich kid

  • post modern

  • quiet noise

  • rolling stop

  • running in place

  • rules of war

  • sad clown

  • same difference

  • seriously funny

  • sight unseen

  • silent alarm

  • smart fool

  • smokeless cigarette

  • steel wool

  • study break

  • summer school

  • sweet and sour

  • sweet tart

  • Swiss Army

  • terribly nice

  • tough love

  • true lies

  • unbelievably real

  • virtual reality

  • victimless crime

  • working lunch

  • young adult