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Oxymoron means a rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory
terms are combined, as in "a deafening silence" and "a mournful optimist". In this
exercise you have to compose 10 oxymoronic figures by using  the clues below as
the first word and  you have to find the second word to make the oxymoron by
replacing each ? sign with a letter in the in the crossword boxes..
 
1. Sick
? h ? e ? a ? l ? e ? r
2. Cold
? f ? i ? r ? e
3. Sweating 
? c ? o ? l ? d
4. Clearly 
? v ? a ? g ? u ? e
5. Openly
? s ? h ? u ? t
6. Industriously
? l ? a ? z ? y
7. Silent
? d ? i ? n
8. Horribly
? h ? a ? p ? p ? y
9. Pretty
? u ? g ? l ? y
10. Brutally
? k ? i ? n ? d

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1. Sick healer
2. Cold fire
3. Sweating cold
4. Clearly vague
5. Openly shut
6. Industriously lazy
7. Silent Din
8. Horribly happy
9. Pretty ugly
10 .Brutally kind