Adventures with Words: Oxymorons #1

oxymoron |ˌäksəˈmôrˌän| noun

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., faith unfaithful kept him falsely true).

ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Greek oxumōron, neuter (used as a noun) of oxumōros ‘pointedly foolish,’ from oxus ‘sharp’ + mōros ‘foolish.’

1. open secret
2. larger half
3. clearly confused
4. living dead
   
5. alone together
6. Hell's Angels
7. found missing
8. liquid gas
   
9. deafening silence
10. seriously funny
11. freezer burn
    
12. extinct life
13. genuine imitation
14. exact estimate
15. only choice