Term: oxymoron: conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: sun deck: an unroofed deck
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: institute: an association organized to promote art or science or education
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: kingfish: any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: house: play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: show bill: a poster advertising a show or play
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: australian cockroach: widely distributed in warm countries
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: white pelican: large American pelican; white with black wing feathers
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: stimulation: the act of arousing an organism to action
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: adiabatic process: (thermodynamics) any process that occurs without gain or loss of heat
Broader: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Unrelated: fairway: a tract of ground free of obstacles to movement