wonk vs student

wonk and student both are nouns.

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

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

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

Other hypernyms of wonk include assimilator, learner, scholar.

wonk (noun)	student (noun)
an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious	a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution
	someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs