wonk vs scholar

wonk and scholar both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
wonk	Yes	No	No	No
scholar	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, scholar is a hypernym of wonk; that is, scholar is a word with a broader meaning than wonk:

wonk: an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
scholar: someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs

Other hypernyms of wonk include assimilator, learner, student.

wonk (noun)	scholar (noun)
an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious	a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
	someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
	a student who holds a scholarship