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Oxymoron is a figure of speech wherein the literal meaning amounts to logical contradiction. However slightly shifted suggestive meaning (Lakshnaarth) is not a logical contradiction but contains subtle truth in it with some humor.

False Oxymoron is not a logical contradiction even if taken literally. Find out as to which of the following are true oxymorons & which are false.

Example False Oxymoron: ‘Standard Table of Random Numbers’ appears logical contradiction. However such thing actually exists. It is stipulated to use it for sample selection in surveys.

Example of proper oxymoron: ‘Original Copy’, the original document is not a copy but as it comes along with set of copies it gets this funny name.

Please note that rhetoric suggestions like ‘Clean Politician’, ‘Collective responsibility’, ‘Humble IITian’, ‘Listening Husband’ are not included.

Exercise

Mark as to which of the following are proper Oxymorons & which of them are false.

1)    Preaching Innocence

2)    Complementary Opposites

3)    Asymmetric Balance 

4)    Dynamic Equilibrium 

5)    Attraction of the forbidden

6)    Maintaining Spontaneity

7)    Impending Motion

8)    Agree to Differ

9)    Allowable Error

10)     Controlling Fortune

11)     Disinterested Delight

12)     Successful Retreat

13)     Only alternative 

14)     Polite Insistence

15)     Generous Duty

16)     Healthy Disregard

17)     Contrast Matching

18)     Attack is the best Defense