Should I use ';adolescents'; or ';teenagers'; in a college paper?

adolescents sounds professional, but weird.


teenagers sounds right, but not professional.Should I use ';adolescents'; or ';teenagers'; in a college paper?
If you are using it as a technical term in a college paper, you should define the specific age range you are talking about, not use a vague term. ';Adolescents'; is vague. ';Teenagers'; is accurate, provided you want to talk about people aged between 13 and 19.