Sentence example with the word 'literacy'

literacy

bibliolatry, bluestockingism, book madness, bookishness, classical scholarship, culture, eruditeness, humanism, intellectualism, learnedness, pedantism, reading

Definition n. the ability to read and write

Last update: October 24, 2015


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The drive for literacy has been quite successful in remote areas.   [Please select]

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Here the statistics of literacy need only be considered.   [Please select]

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The literacy test was inserted by the House but was rejected by the Senate.   [Please select]

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In his last veto message on January 29, 1917, President Wilson said that "the literacy test."   [Please select]

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, quoted, 62-63 Wilmington, Germans in, 127 Wilson, Woodrow, and anti-Japanese feeling, 206; on literacy test, 231 Windber (Penn.)   [Please select]

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Another requirement (at least in the period before radio and television) is general literacy.   [Please select]

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There were Hindus--sycophants, keepers of accounts and writers to the chiefs (since literacy is at premium in these parts).   [Please select]

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8, 1863, 222 Literacy test for immigrants, in Lodge bill, 227; rejected in law of 1903, 228-29; executive disapproval of, 231; bill passes over veto (1917), 232; provisions of act, 232 Lithuanians in United States, 174-75 Liverpool, Irish immigrants at, 111, 112 (note) Lockwood, G.   [Please select]

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