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2. Opposite (semantics) - Wikipedia

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   Opposite (semantics) In lexical semantics, opposites are words lying in an inherently incompatible binary relationship. For example, something that is male entails that it is not female. It is referred to as a 'binary' relationship because there are two members in a set of opposites. The relationship between opposites is known as opposition.

3. Contronym - Wikipedia

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   Contronym. A contronym is a word with two opposite meanings; such a word is also known as an antagonym, autoantonym, contranym, or Janus word. [1] [2] For example, the word cleave can mean "to cut apart" or "to bind together". This feature is also called enantiosemy, [3] [4] enantionymy ( enantio- means "opposite"), antilogy or autoantonymy.

4. Antiphrasis - Wikipedia

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   Antiphrasis. Antiphrasis is the rhetorical device of saying the opposite of what is actually meant in such a way that it is obvious what the true intention is. [1] Some authors treat and use antiphrasis just as irony, euphemism or litotes. [2]

5. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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   Refers both to the innocence of a lamb and to Christ being a sacrificial lamb after the Jewish religious practice. It is the Latin translation from John 1:36, when St. John the Baptist exclaimes "Ecce Agnus Dei!" ("Behold the Lamb of God!") upon seeing Jesus Christ. alea iacta est: the die has been cast

6. Oxymoron - Wikipedia

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   Oxymoron. Oxymorons are words that communicate contradictions. An oxymoron (plurals: oxymorons and oxymora) is a figure of speech that juxtaposes concepts with opposite meanings within a word or in a phrase that is a self-contradiction. As a rhetorical device, an oxymoron illustrates a point to communicate and reveal a paradox.

7. Older guys Macdonald and Oberholzer set a gold standard for ...

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   Andy Mac and 49-year-old South African Dallas Oberholzer are the older guys in a men's Olympic competition where the youngest entrant is 16-year-old Viktor Solmunde of Denmark. Macdonald finished ...

8. Why You Don’t Need to Worry (Too Much) About Mercury ... - AOL

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   Mercury is a neurotoxin, so if you get too much of it, it can harm the nervous system, says Yawitz. But the reputation mercury gets as bad-for-you is a bit deceptive, as you really need to eat a ...

9. Kremlin rejects 'absurd' US accusations of election meddling

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   MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin on Tuesday dismissed as absurd U.S. intelligence assertions that Russia is seeking to meddle in the presidential election and said that U.S. spies were intent on ...