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Oxy the Moron!
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Puzzle ID: #28330
Submitted By: Swordoffury1392 Corrected By: ThinksForFun
Submitted By: Swordoffury1392 Corrected By: ThinksForFun
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Oxy the Moron set out into the world and learned a big word, OXYMORON!!! After searching about this new word for some time, he came up with a teaser made especially for you!
Can you figure out which well-known oxymorons these words are?
Ex) Initial facsimile = original copy
1) solitary option
2) approximately precise
3) trivial calamity
4) accurate approximation
5) authentic duplication
Can you figure out which well-known oxymorons these words are?
Ex) Initial facsimile = original copy
1) solitary option
2) approximately precise
3) trivial calamity
4) accurate approximation
5) authentic duplication
Answer
1) only choice2) almost exactly
3) minor crisis
4) exact estimate
5) genuine imitation
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Good one. I got 'almost perfect' for number two
I got "real fake" for the last one
gosh dangit thats a good one loved it
ha ha great
oxymorons are fun!
government organization ha ha
jk lol
welp, i luved it good job
oxymorons are fun!
government organization ha ha
jk lol
welp, i luved it good job
"Original copy" jumped out at me as the obvious answer to #5.
Nice one though.
Nice one though.
Great sport...
Fun!! I like oxymorons!! Great teaser!!
really
WELL DONE SWORDOFFURY.
OXY THE MORON IS GREAT!
A very good teaser. Just loved it!
Number three better answered as "minor disaster." A crisis might be resolved in a positive, non-calamity way.
This teaser was great! Definitely a fave!!
Thanks - keep themcoming.
nice one, had fun.. did poorly,
got real copy for #5.. LOL
more please!
got real copy for #5.. LOL
more please!
They all had other possible answers.I liked this one, had to really think.
i did not get even close to that o well
Great fun! Thought of many "close but not quite" hmmm Would that be an almost oxymoron?
didnt get it at all!!!!!
This was very cute and well thought out keep them coming
i got #1 right and real copy for #5 . so , i guess this was toomuch for me today!
if you'd have shown me how i swear to god i maybe might a could have solved.
Well, guess who the moron was today. It was a great teaser, but evidentally just not in my area. Need more practice on these. Keep them coming. Good job!
i didnt get them all..and for #2 i got about right..and for #5 i got original copy...oh well good teaser!
Yayyyyyyy! I got a couple!!! I agree that some have multiple options , but so what! It just adds to the fun!
Why do I see all those "this is offensive" notations in the left-hand column by the user names??? The comments are not offensive!!!
iteachkids, that button is to be clicked if you think that the comments are offensive. It does not mean that they acctaully are offensive...
Yay! I love oxymorons! Nice job... I got them all
Thank you, Swordofury. What makes me curious is that until today, I have never seen those. And now that I've seen your explanation, I am sorry to say that I clicked the "This is offensive" thing in front of my comments to see what would happen. When it made the first comment disappear, I clicked the second one to get rid of it!
I got "good guess" for #4 and "about right" for #2. Maybe some of these can have more than one valid answer?
very very dull!!!
Good one!
I liked it. It was hard due to the number of choices but it was still fun.
I don't see any buttons about anything being offensive?
I don't see any buttons about anything being offensive?
I thought it was fun!!
Still too many possible answers in my opinion. And like last year, I didn't get them all.
I'm confused
What's an oxymoron?
But it must have been a great teaser because so many people liked it
What's an oxymoron?
But it must have been a great teaser because so many people liked it
This is a Totally Awesome teaser! Quite easy for me, because I learned them some 40+ yrs ago, but they are still intriguing to work out! Keep up the excellant work! I enjoyed them.
i thought #3 was "small disaster" but close enough!
This is one of those that can have many answers. I had the following:
Lone choice
small castastrophe
real copy
Lone choice
small castastrophe
real copy
I had lone choice for #1, also. great fun!
We all know oxymorons like 'jumbo shrimp,' (a phrase that contracdicts itself. These were fun, but they're not oxymorons, they're semantic synonyms - they don't contradict, they only rephrase an original noun.
lol - I'm so sorry - I had 2 language teasers open at once, and my comment was meant for the other one (won't say which one-) THIS teaser was great! ...that'll teach me to multi-task...
love theese. More more! I want more!
delightful teaser and I was able solve it. It took a while and I got exact instead of exactly. So I almost got them all. Keep up the good work great teaser
I didn't get it. Can someone shed some light on it for me.
good job
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Fun one! Keep 'em coming!
Wow, this was harder than it looked originally! Some of the clues seemed so similar, it was throwing me off! I only got the first two-and-a-half (I had minor emergency for #3).
I had different answers on all but #4. But yours are also good ones.
Had difficulty with this one.
I love oxymorons, it was simple yet entertaining. Great teaser.
Really good teaser.
those were good oxymorons
I got the first three. Great teaser!
As Bradon182001 said there were multiple answers for some of them. Other than that it was a good teaser. Fun and easy.
I had various answers also.
I had various answers also. It was fun but I thought I got them right turns out I didn't at all. ops
Lol I don't know what happened since my last comment but I only got one this time
(Also, this Teaser of the Day is featured on a different day as it last was!!)
(Also, this Teaser of the Day is featured on a different day as it last was!!)
Good teaser. My all time favorite is jumbo shrimp.
Nice fun teaser, thanks!
Similar to others, I had different answers.
Similar to others, I had different answers.
President Trump
Fun and challenging teaser; I was only able to get one out of five. I came up with other words but not the correct ones for 2 thru 5.
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