literate
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And for the first time, women outnumbered men in the number of literates added to the country in the last decade.
From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2012
In Kenya, India or Ghana, teachers still try to teach an absurdly demanding curriculum to a very diverse set of pupils, many of whom are first-generation literates and get little or no help at home.
From New York Times • May 10, 2011
International experts estimate there are some 35 million more "functional" il literates today than ten years ago, possibly a billion in all.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were people from every walk of American life--bankers, professors, laborers, blacks, whites, literates and illiterates.
From Time Magazine Archive
Out of the total number 280 in the thousand are literates.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
Vocabulary lists containing literate
March: Book Two
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American Street
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"Shelter" by Harlan Coben, Chapters 1–6
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