scholastics

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School subjects and study activities like reading and math

noun
/skəˈlæstɪks/

: materias académicas

They emphasize scholastics, but they emphasize gentlemanly deportment, too.
Scholastics: 2.6 GPA
Applied Scholastics

Examples

Game day found the entire school and county talking scholastics.

Fiction book (2001)
That insight, once clearly grasped, will win Mastny few friends among the powerful cadre of superannuating revisionist scholastics still in comfortable residence high up, and highly paid, in the ivory towers.

Academic text (1999)
The school offers various scholastics to enhance students' understanding of key subjects.
Students participate in extracurricular activities that focus on scholastics and academic success.
Many parents appreciate the emphasis on scholastics in their children's education.

Surface Forms

scholastics singular

scholastics plural

Morphology

scholastics = scholastic (transparent) = scholastic + s

Form is a straightforward plural (-s) of 'scholastic', so the meaning 'school-related subjects' is directly derived from the adjective.

Etymology

Scholastics comes from the Greek root schole meaning 'leisure' that later came to mean 'school', the same root as school and scholar. So scholastics means the studies and subjects you do at school.