These sorts of lists are becoming social media artifacts. This blog has been collecting and curating such things for a while. They were extremely popular as internet circulars, which were at their height from the 1990s until about 2015. Some attempts were made to keep this format alive on Facebook. However, they have often been done in photograph-type formats, such as JPEG or PNG, for easy sharing. This may deter focus from the content and makes editing extremely hard.
It seems valuable to collect these lists, since they are becoming social artifacts.
Contranyms are single words that have two contradictory meanings (they are their own opposites!). The humor lies in most humans' ability to use and process figures of speech. Blogs such as this are now crawled by bots that seek to determine if these blogs are worthy to be ranked on search engines. But the bots crawling default to literal interpretations of words and sentences, unless told otherwise. Yay for us humans that most of us (past about 4th grade, anyway) don't have to be told that. Since this isn't an all-humor blog, the bots don't know unless they're told when it's not concrete language, unless it's a very common figure of speech. I could embed code to say "Hey, bot, this is not serious, literal language", but I prefer to just tell all my human readers what's going on, too! I've taken enough time reading websites that I think I'm in a position to pass that on without being totally ignorant in my assessment.
On to the contranyms. They are somewhat rare. Still, here are 10 of them:
1. Apology: a statement of contrition (sorrow) for an act, or a firm defense of one
2. Bolt: to secure, or to flee
3. Bound: heading to a destination, running off ('bounding away') OR restrained from movement at all
4. Cleave: to adhere to, or to separate
5. Dust: to add fine particles, or to removed them
6. Fast: quick, or stuck/made stable
7. Left: remained, or departed
8. Peer: a person of the nobility, or an equal (actually the 2nd came out of the first; the peers were each other's equals, with rights the hoi polloi didn't have)
9. Sanction: to approve, or to boycott
10. Weather: to withstand, to wear away
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