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Oxymoron

An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two contradicting words. For example, 'jumbo shrimp' or 'living dead'. It's like when someone says 'wet dryer' or 'silent screams' - it's confusing because the words don't usually go together. It's a way of describing something in a clever and sometimes confusing way.