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"execute." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2008.Merriam-Webster Online. 30 October 2008< http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/execute> ex·e·cute Pronunciation: \ˈek-si-ˌkyüt\ 1. to carry out fully...to make or produce 2.to put to death pretty sure that's sufficiently contradictory as in: ''Execute the plan!" vs. "Execute him!"
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Hi, mcfad, and welcome aBoard. I can agree with this in the same way I agreed with yesterday's word asperse: one meaning is "good" while the other is "bad".
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When I was very young, I assumed that pepper was the opposite of salt. Then one morning, I put too much salt on my eggs and tried to fix it by adding a lot of pepper... very different and opposite are not the same.
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"Execute the plan!" vs. "Execute him!" Often enough a plan that is executed ends up executed as in the second meaning of the words up here.
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