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Related to education, schools, universities, etc; related to subjects that involve thinking and studying and not technical or practical skills; clever and good at studying

Academic (adj)

Someone who teaches at a university or college, or is paid to study there

Academic (n)

To carefully consider a situation, person or problem to make a judgment; to calculate what sth costs or is worth

Assess (v)

To believe that sth is true, even though no one has told you or even though you have no proof

Assume (v)

To cannot understand a problem, sb’s behaviour, etc or can’t solve it

Baffle (v)

Showing unfair support for or opposition to sob or sth because of your personal opinions

Biased (adj)

To give all your attention to the thing you are doing

Concentrate (adj)

Always doing your work with a lot of care

Conscientious (adj)

To think carefully about a decision or sth you might do; to think about particular facts when you are making a decision about something

Consider (v)

To consider doing sth in the future; to think about something for a long time or in a serious way

Contemplate (v)

To study hard in order to learn a lot in a short time, especially for exam

Cram (v)

All the subjects taught in a school, college, etc or on an educational course

Curriculum (n)

Believing that people are only interested in themselves and are not sincere

Cynical (adj)

To decide that something is true using the available information

Deduce (v)

To consider something carefully before making an important decision

Deliberate (v)

Done intentionally, or planned; careful and without hurry

Deliberate (adj)

A difficult choice you have to make between two things you could do

Dilemma (n)

To treat someone unfairly because of their sex, race, religion, etc; to notice a difference between two things

Discriminate (v)

A way of studying, especially for a degree, where you study mostly at home, receiving and sending off work by post or over the internet

Distance learning (n phr)

Thought not to be completely true or not able to be trusted; feeling doubt or not feeling certain:

Dubious (adj)

To guess or calculate the cost, size, value, etc. of sth

Estimate (v)

An amount that you guess or calculate using the information available

Estimate (n)

Great trust or confidence in sth or sb

Faith (n)

To collect several things, often from different places or people; to understand or believe sth as a result of sth that has been said or done

Gather (v)

Very great and rare natural ability or skill, especially in a particular area such as science or art; a person who has this

Genius (n)

A person who has a first degree from a university or college

Graduate (n)

To complete a first university degree successfully; to move forward or improve

Graduate (v)

To quickly take something in your hand(s) and hold it firmly; to understand something, especially something difficult

Grasp (v)

The process of making a guess when you do not know all the facts

Guesswork (n)

An idea that is based on feeling and for which there is no proof

Hunch (n)

A set of beliefs or principles, especially one on which a political system, party, or organization is based

Ideology (n)

Not having enough knowledge, understanding, or information about something

Ignorant (adj)

To communicate an idea or feeling without saying it directly; to involve something or make it necessary

Imply (v)

Not to giving attention to sb or sth

Inattentive (adj)

(for a person) very intelligent and skilful; (for a thing) skilfully made or planned and involving new ideas and methods

Ingenious (adj)

A sudden feeling of enthusiasm or a new idea that helps you to do or create sth

Inspiration (n)

Sb who is well educated and interested in art, science, literature etc at an advanced level

Intellectual (n)

Relating to the ability to think in an intelligent way and to understand things, especially difficult or complicated ideas and subjects; well educated and interested in art, science, literature etc an advanced level

Intellectual (adj)

Good at thinking clearly and quickly. At understanding difficult ideas and subjects, and at gaining and using knowledge

Intelligent (adj)

Involving a lot of work in a short period of time

Intensive (adj)

The feeling that you know something without being able to explain why

Intuition (n)

To give a good enough reason to make something seem acceptable

Justify (v)

Knowing a lot

Knowledgeable (adj)

To give a formal talk to a group of people, often at a university; to talk angrily to someone in order to criticize their behaviour

Lecture (v)

A formal talk given to a group of people in order to teach them about a subject; an angry or serious talk given to someone in order to criticize their behaviour

Lecture (n)

An examination you take for practice before an important examination

Mock exam (n phr)

Believe things too easily and do not have enough experience of the world.

Naïve (adj)

An idea or belief

Notion (n)

Always believing that good things will happen

Optimistic (adj)

A situation that seems very strange or impossible because of two opposite qualities or facts

Paradox (n)

Always believing that bad things will happen

Pessimistic (adj)

To copy someone else's work or ideas

Plagiarise (v)

Likely to be true, honest or suitable

Plausible (adj)

To think carefully about something

Ponder (v)

The feeling of not liking a group of people or unfair treatment of them because they are a different race, sex, religion, etc

Prejudiced (adj)

To think that something is likely to be true, although you are not certain

Presume (v)

To ask questions in order to check that something is true or correct

Query (v)

A question

Query (n)

To think that something is probably true; to guess that a particular number is correct

Reckon (v)

To show or be a sign of something; to think in a serious and careful way; send back; image

Reflect (v)

Doubting that something is true or useful

Sceptical (adj)

A way of learning about a subject that involves studying alone at home, rather than in a classroom with a teacher

Self-study (n)

An occasion when a teacher or expert and a group of people meet to study and discuss something:

Seminar (n)

The particular things needed by or provided to help people who have an illness or condition that makes it difficult for them to do the things that other people do; the people included in this group, for example within the educational system

Special needs (n phr)

To guess possible answers to a question when you do not have enough information to be certain

Speculate (v)

To think that something is likely to be true;

Suppose (v)

Teaching, especially when given to a small group or one person, such as in a college or university:

Tuition (n)

A period of study with a tutor involving one student or a small group

Tutorial (n)