What is meant by academic words in a passage?

Answer 1

-adjective1.of or pertaining to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution, esp. one for higher education: academic requirements.

2.pertaining to areas of study that are not primarily vocational or applied, as the humanities or pure mathematics.

3.theoretical or hypothetical; not practical, realistic, or directly useful: an academic question; an academic discussion of a matter already decided.

4.learned or scholarly but lacking in worldliness, common sense, or practicality.

5.conforming to set rules, standards, or traditions; conventional: academic painting.

6.acquired by formal education, esp. at a college or university: academic preparation for the ministry.

7.( initial capital letter ) of or pertaining to Academe or to the Platonic school of philosophy.

-noun8.a student or teacher at a college or university.

9.a person who is academic in background, attitudes, methods, etc.: He was by temperament an academic, concerned with books and the arts.

10.( initial capital letter ) a person who supports or advocates the Platonic school of philosophy.

11.academics, the scholarly activities of a school or university, as classroom studies or research projects: more emphasis on academics and less on athletics.

Answer 2

Every field of study or occupation has its own academic words. As some examples:

• phalanges (fingers)
  
• thermal (warmth; heat)
  
• Arthritis (pain and swelling in the bones)
• contusion (bruise)
• abrasion (a scrape from friction, such as "rug burn")
• performing (doing)
• compose (to write)
• composition (writing)
• autobiography (true story about your life)
• H2O (water)
• granules (bits)
• foliage (leaves)
• kinesis (movement; moving)
  
• congested (stuffy nose)
• rhinitis (runny nose)

Answer 3

An "academic word" is a word that has a special meaning within a subject or field of study.

Answer 4

I have to go to acadmic school