Term: socratic irony: admission of your own ignorance and willingness to learn while exposing someone's inconsistencies by close questioning
Candidate hypernym: irony: incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs → 1
Candidate hypernym: genus buddleia: shrubs or trees of warm regions → 0
Candidate hypernym: pint: a United States dry unit equal to 0.5 quart or 33.6 cubic inches → 0
Candidate hypernym: brazilian guava: South American tree having fruit similar to the true guava → 0
Candidate hypernym: chorea: any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs → 0
Candidate hypernym: dry nurse: a nurse who cares for but does not suckle an infant → 0
Candidate hypernym: marshalling yard: a railway yard in which trains are assembled and goods are loaded → 0
Candidate hypernym: anachronism: something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred → 0
Candidate hypernym: organ pipe: the flues and stops on a pipe organ → 0
Candidate hypernym: vanguard: the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field → 0
Candidate hypernym: blastomyces: genus of pathogenic yeastlike fungi → 0