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