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Lector :: Lector (n.) A reader of lections; formerly, a person designated to read lessons to the illiterate..

Obliterate :: Obliterate (a.) Scarcely distinct; -- applied to the markings of insects.

Uncult :: Uncult (a.) Not cultivated; rude; illiterate.

Patois :: Patois (n.) A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech.

Thoracoplasty :: Thoracoplasty (n.) A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema..

Literate :: Literate (n.) One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders..

Alliterator :: Alliterator (n.) One who alliterates.

Illiterate :: Illiterate (a.) Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people..

Literate :: Literate (n.) A literary man.

Raze :: Raze (v. t.) To erase; to efface; to obliterate.

Alliterate :: Alliterate (v. t.) To employ or place so as to make alliteration.

Decipher :: Decipher (v. t.) To find out, so as to be able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold..

Obliterate :: Obliterate (v. t.) To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity.

Illiteracy :: Illiteracy (n.) The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; want of learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last census..

-ation :: -ation () A suffix forming nouns of action, and often equivalent to the verbal substantive in -ing. It sometimes has the further meanings of state, and that which results from the action. Many of these nouns have verbs in -ate; as, alliterate -ation, narrate -ation; many are derived through the French; as, alteration, visitation; and many are formed on verbs ending in the Greek formative -ize (Fr. -ise); as, civilization, demoralization..

Obliteration :: Obliteration (n.) The act of obliterating, or the state of being obliterated; extinction..

Erased :: Erased (p. pr. & a.) Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated.

Han''t :: Han't () A contraction of have not, or has not, used in illiterate speech. In the United States the commoner spelling is hain't..

Ain't :: Ain't () A contraction for are not and am not; also used for is not. [Colloq. or illiterate speech]. See An't.

Mesophl/um :: Mesophl/um (n.) The middle bark of a tree; the green layer of bark, usually soon covered by the outer or corky layer, and obliterated..

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