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academic
Adjective
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An academic topic, lecture, idea, etc., is one that is connected to education.
The academic staff at the college generally don't teach during the summer.
There is a lot of political disagreement about it, but there is general academic agreement.
academic
Noun
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An academic is a researcher or university teacher.
The government has begun jailing journalists and banning academics from travel.
The book is very popular for one written by an academic.
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Academics is the part of school related to learning.
This class was strong in every aspect of their schooling, including academics, athletics and extracurricular activities.
initiative
Noun
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If you have or take the initiative, you are in control and can decide what to do next.
It's good to see someone take the initiative and start doing something about this problem.
It appears that the army was acting on its own initiative and not on orders from the president.
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If you have initiative, you do things without needing to be told to do them.
We're looking to hire somebody with initiative because I won't be able to supervise them much.
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An initiative is an effort to start doing something to solve a problem.
The town has no new initiatives to deal with garbage.
section
Noun
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A section of a thing or place is a part of it.
The police closed one section of the road because of the accident.
section
Verb
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If you section something, you divide it into parts.