literate

literate
adj.
VERBS
be
become
ADVERB
extremely, fairly, very, etc.
highly

Only highly literate people are capable of discussing these subjects.

fully

They are the first fully literate generation in the country.

barely

He was uneducated and barely literate.

economically, musically, politically, scientifically, technologically, etc.
PREPOSITION
in

Both parents were literate in English.


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