There are a lot of great criticisms to be made about academics and how they eventually get caught up in little self-contained idea vortices that don’t actually matter to the world at large; they lose sight of how small their field is in the grand scheme of things and start to project its importance in their life to the wider society.

However the thing about using words like this: they are specific. It’s important to learn that just because two words are synonyms does not mean they are interchangeable. Some words are more correct for the specific idea you are trying to communicate.