classics

In a sentence

Three example sentences with classics, each labelled with its topic.

• Students who take classics spend three years on Homer and Virgil before they are allowed to specialize.

  Literature

• The department merged classics with archaeology so that undergraduates reading Thucydides could also handle pottery from the same century.

  History

• A term of classics gave the seminar the Greek it needed to argue about Plato without leaning on translations.

  Philosophy

Found in these word lists

Found in 2 published word listsAuthoritative

• Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
• New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)

Each source is a published word list that contains classics. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

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