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illiteracy

noun as in inability to read or write

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Those Americans who believe in democracy and justice can no longer accept being reduced to a nation of spectators; they can no longer define democracy by reducing it to a voting machine controlled by the rich; nor can they equate it with the corpse of capitalism; they can no longer allow the silence of the press to function as a disimagination machine that functions to largely depoliticize the public; they can no longer allow education to be pushed as machinery of illiteracy, historical amnesia, and ignorance.

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Chronically absent students are at higher risk of illiteracy and eventually dropping out.

One of two Black contestants chosen for that season in 2010, Folkes was insulted that Trump had called him inarticulate and accused him of illiteracy in a lengthy boardroom tirade minutes earlier.

She said mobile phones could help overcome the illiteracy that still affects 773 million people worldwide according to UNESCO.

Much has been written about the utter historical illiteracy of originalist federal judges, who uniformly cherry-pick convenient bits and pieces of the past while simply disregarding the parts of the historical record they dislike.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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