scholastic
Other forms: scholastics
Something that's scholastic has to do with schools or learning. If you brag about your town's scholastic excellence, you mean that you've got great schools.
When your school principal talks about scholastic achievement, she's discussing the grades and test scores of her students, and if you referred to your own scholastic challenges, you probably mean the subjects you find the most difficult in school. One well-known U.S. college entrance exam is the SAT, which was originally an acronym for Scholastic Aptitude Test. The word is from the Latin scholasticus, "of a school," with the Greek root skholastikos, "devoting one's leisure to learning."
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of or relating to schools“scholastic year”
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of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism“scholastic philosophy”
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a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merittypes:puristsomeone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words)type of:bookman, scholar, scholarly person, studenta learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
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This list features words from "Knots in My Yo-Yo String" (autobiography) and sporty poetry. Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 6, Unit 1's texts from HMH's Scope and Sequence series: Lesson 1, Lesson 2, Lesson 3, Lesson 4, Lesson 5 Here are links to all the 2014 Journeys units: Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 4, Unit 5, Unit 6
