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Okay, so as an alternative to:

Maybe it would be better to just change the wording a bit to avoid the peculiarities of заумничать. Would this work:
Хотя амёбы тема, это не наука урок.
Intended...

Он не хочет заумничать в этом уроке.
Intended Meaning:
He does not wish to get scientific in this lesson.
(The lesson involves amoebas, but not in a scientific sense.)

I'm having difficulty determining the meaning for заумничать. Neither Google nor Wiktionary know the word. Google, however, does know умничать which it says means "to try to be clever" or "to show...