Michael's Friday of Awesome - Contronyms
Here’s an ambiguous sentence for you: “Because of the agency’s oversight, the corporation’s behaviour was sanctioned.” Does that mean, 'Because the agency oversaw the company’s behaviour, they imposed a penalty for some transgression' or does it mean, 'Because the agency was inattentive, they overlooked the misbehaviour and gave it their approval by default'? We’ve stumbled into the looking-glass world of “contronyms”—words that are their own antonyms.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/49834/14-words-are-their-own-opposites
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