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	Contronymns

Sethi

4-24-2007 7:45 AM

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By Peter Klein
</p> <P></P><TABLE width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><TBODY><TR><TD class="article"><DIV><DIV class="snap_preview"><P>| Peter Klein |</p> <P>Re <A title="Link to another page in this blog" class="blines2" target="_blank" href="http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2007/04/22/theoretical-vs-teorico-vs-%e7%90%86%e8%ae%ba-how-the-precision-of-foreign-language-relates-to-the-cost-of-innovation/">Chihmao’s post</A>: English also has quite a few <EM>contronyms,</EM> words that are their own antonyms. <A title="Link outside of this blog" class="blines3" target="_blank" href="http://rinkworks.com/words/contronyms.shtml">Here is a list</A>, including these that appear often in business administration and social-science research:</p> <UL><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">consult — ask for advice, give advice</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">custom — usual, special</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">discursive — proceeding coherently from topic to topic, moving aimlessly from topic to topic</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">enjoin — prescribe, prohibit</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">first degree — most severe (e.g., murder), least severe (e.g., burn)</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">handicap — advantage, disadvantage</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">mean — average, excellent (e.g., “plays a mean game”)</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">oversight — error, care</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">rent — buy use of, sell use of</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">transparent — invisible, obvious</LI></UL></DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D89FA63D-D99A-4A9C-A592-68AEDE35D18D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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