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noun, plural ox·y·mo·ra 
[ok-si-mawr-uh, -mohr-uh] , ox·y·mor·ons. Rhetoric.
[ok-si-mawr-uh, -mohr-uh] , ox·y·mor·ons. Rhetoric. a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”
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Oxymoronic
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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