Sophie’s World: Socrates Vocabulary

Itinerant	Wandering	
Sophist	Wise and informed person	
Skepticism	To doubt or disbelieve	
Agnostic	Unable to say if god or gods exist or not	
Innate	Born with; something inside	
Convention	Normal for a group	
Enigmatic	Mysterious; puzzling	
Ambiguous	Understood in more than one way	
Insight	An inner understanding	
Feign	pretend	
Exasperating	Annoying	
Gadfly	Goads others; nagging; annoying	
Corrupting	Morally bad	
Leniency	Not as strict	
Discourse	A discussion between two or more people	
Philosopher	One who seeks wisdom and truth	
Ethics	The study of the standards of right and wrong	
Courageous	Bravery, at personal risk	
Oracle	Place: where one can speak with the gods
Person: a fortune teller	
Rationalist	One who believes that we can discover and understand all through reason and logic	
Conscience	An inner voice that tells us the rightness or wrongness of actions	
Virtuous	Pure; morally good