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45. Oxymoron:

ox·y·mo·ron
   [ok-si-mawr-on, -mohr-] Show IPA
noun, plural ox·y·mo·ra  [ok-si-mawr-uh, -mohr-uh] Show IPA, ox·y·mor·ons. Rhetoric .
a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”


oxymoron (ˌɒksɪˈmɔːrɒn) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]

— n , pl -mora
rhetoric an epigrammatic effect, by which contradictory terms are used in conjunction: living death ; fiend angelical

Definition of OXYMORON
: a combination of contradictory or incongruous words (as cruel kindness); broadly : something (as a concept) that is made up of contradictory or incongruous elements

These are oxymorons:
Original copy
Living dead
Open secret
Jumbo shrimp

"Cat-lover" does not meet this definition.