Socrates Flashcards
oration
A formal speech, especially one given on a ceremonial occasion.
strait
A narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two other large areas of water.
dumbfounded
Greatly astonished or amazed.
conception
The action of conceiving a child or of one being conceived.
impose
Force (an unwelcome decision or ruling) on someone.
insist
Demand something forcefully, not accepting refusal.
conceived
Create (an embryo) by fertilizing an egg.
squalid
of a place) extremely dirty and unpleasant, especially as a result of poverty or neglect.
sorcerer
A person who claims or is believed to have magic powers; a wizard.
sophist
A paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric in Greece in the Classical and Hellenistic periods, associated in popular thought with moral scepticism and specious reasoning.