Examples:
Driveway: Place where you park your car
Parkway: Place where you drive your car
Cargo: goods sent on a ship
Shipment: goods sent by land vehicle.
Can you think of other such words?
2007-07-02 06:58:10 · 12 answers · asked by Tom S 7 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
The word for these is oxymoron. (conjoining contradictory terms)
The link listed below calls itself the largest oxymoron list online.
Here are its top 20:
20. Government Organization
19. Alone Together
18. Personal Computer
17. Silent Scream
16. Living Dead
15. Same Difference
14. Taped Live
13. Plastic Glasses
12. Tight Slacks
11. Peace Force
10. Pretty Ugly
9. Head Butt
8. Working Vacation
7. Tax Return
6. Virtual Reality
5. Dodge Ram
4. Work Party
3. Jumbo Shrimp
2. Healthy Tan
1. Microsoft Works
2007-07-10 06:47:23 · answer #1 · answered by maî 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not sure if this answers the question, but one thing that I always thought was kind of peculiar is the fact that as single words, "awe" and "wonder" are synonyms. But when you add the suffix "ful," they become antonyms. Weird, huh?
How about a bridge going over the highway. Wouldn't that make it the low way?
Have you ever paid a toll on a freeway?
What do all of the following have in common?
Playing cards
Dental work
A musical piece
Your nose
Eye glasses.
Roads
Rivers and other bodies of water
By a slim margin, the most populated city in CT
2007-07-09 22:58:42 · answer #2 · answered by healthsys2 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
a fine mess
a just war
a little big
a new classic
absolutely unsure
abundant poverty
accidentally on purpose
accurate estimate
act naturally
active retirement
actual reenactment
adult children
advanced basic
advanced beginner
agree to disagree
alone in a crowd
almost exactly
almost safe
almost surprised
almost totally
alone together
amateur expert
amicable divorce
among the first
better than new
beyond infinity
big baby
big sip
big town
bigger half
bingeing on moderation
bitter sweet
black light
blameless culprit
boneless ribs
books on tape
boring court jester
boring entertainmentcavalier concern
center around
certainly unsure
cheerful pessimist
cheerfully cynical
cheerfully mournful
chilling fever
Christian evolutionist
civil disobedience
Civil War
cruel kindness
current history
diminutive giants
dim light
dimwit
direct circumvention
disciplined gluttony
discretionary rules
disposable income
distant relative
divided unity
divorce court
doing nothing
doubting believers
drawing a blank
dress pants
exact estimate
expected serendipity
expected surprise
expect the unexpected
explicit innuendo
explicitly ambiguous
express line
expressive silence
extended deadline
2007-07-02 14:08:21 · answer #3 · answered by Flip-Flop Crazy Girl 4 · 0⤊ 7⤋
Play- a performance where you recite lines
Recital- A performance where you play an instrument
2007-07-08 13:32:46 · answer #4 · answered by daviimom 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
make haste slowly cruel kindness Poor little rich girl. wise fool You're never too old to learn. You can't teach an old dog new tricks. Many hands make light work Too many cooks spoil the broth Birds of a feather flock together Oppposites attract. ( I think this is what you mean).
2007-07-02 14:12:24 · answer #5 · answered by ruth4526 7 · 0⤊ 5⤋
Gangplank - only one man walks it
2007-07-08 23:20:36 · answer #6 · answered by Pryva D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought contradictory words were like..............Alone Together and Pretty Ugly
2007-07-02 14:08:35 · answer #7 · answered by lemondrop 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
when ask someone to reduce speed ,you say:
SLOW UP or SLOW DOWN
other way ,we say :SPEED UP
also:
CALL SOMEONE UP
CALM DOWN
2007-07-09 00:41:31 · answer #8 · answered by jammal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hot chili peppers.
undercutting overheads.
batsman out on the field when he's in, and in the pavilion when he's out.
2007-07-02 14:17:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
drive thru window! he, he, he!!â¥
drive up to window and stop!
2007-07-09 21:20:20 · answer #10 · answered by gone fishing! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋