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title: "Oxymoron, Periphrasis, Euphemism"
description: "Oxymoron is a combination of two words in which the meaning is opposite in sense. Oxymorons from Eve..."
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published: "2013-03-19T12:27:59+00:00"
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# Oxymoron, Periphrasis, Euphemism

> Oxymoron is a combination of two words in which the meaning is opposite in sense. Oxymorons from Eve...

## Oxymoron is a combination of two words in which the meaning is opposite in sense. Oxymorons from Everyday Life:

## - Great Depression;

## - Pain for pleasure;

## - Beautifully painful;

## - Painfully beautiful;

## - Pretty ugly;

## - Pretty cruel;

## - Only choice;

## - Amazingly awful;

## - Awfully delicious;

## - Original copy.

## PERIPHRASIS is the "use of a longer phrasing in place of a possible shorter form of expression", or "an instance of periphrasis".

![Oxymoron, Periphrasis, Euphemism](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/dariya2406/0B1WHQDuhoYzUKb815FwmqovZnGGCr.jpg)

## Euphemism is used to avoid some unpleasant things, or taboo things.

## Example: "He passed away" for he died*; *

## Big boned- fat;

## Correctional facility – prison.

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