Enlightenment Vocabulary

A philosophical movement in the 18th century

• Enlightenment

• Philosopher

• Revolution

• Deism

Ancient times

• antiquity

• olden

• intellectual

• Paleolithic

A person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment; a scholar or a thinker

• Philosopher

• Rationalism

• Enlightenment

• Genius

• Geocentric

• Heliocentric

• Heliocentric

• Geocentric

Study of the universe

• astronomy

• astrology

• asteroid

• anomaly

To speak against; to say the opposite

• contradict

• reason

• inductive reasoning

• compose

Oval shaped

• elliptical

• heretical

• enlarged

• ensure

To go against church beliefs and teachings

• heretical

• empiricism

• laissez-faire

• intellectual

Social or political change

• revolution

• revolt

• intellectual

• scientific method