sophist

1. A scholar or thinker.

2. Any of a group of professional fifth-century B.C. Greek philosophers and teachers who speculated on theology, metaphysics, and the sciences, and who were later characterized by Plato as superficial manipulators of rhetoric and dialectic.

3. One skilled in elaborate and devious argumentation.

4. A captious or fallacious reasoner.

5. Any of a class of ancient Greek teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and the art of successful living prominent about the middle of the fifth century for their adroit subtle and allegedly often specious reasoning.

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
sophist	12	Scrabble

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