Juxtapose

Juxtapose means “to place things side by side for comparison”.  The things compared are usually very different things. I found this word in a cheesy fan-fiction of a book that I found by my pool. At a recent Christmas party we were choosing preferred gifts for our ‘Secret Santa’ operation and when I was asked what I wanted, I requested a short story of any topic using the word ‘Juxtapose’. The person who had me actually wrote the story and used the word on the last line. It was a pretty good story about a civil war romance. On a side note, I forgot to get my person a gift.

Bryanne