Crossword-Solution: ILLITERACY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
| Illiteracy | n. | An instance of ignorance; a literary blunder. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “ILLITERACY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| The rate in U. S. is 2.7 per cent. | 1 answer |
| imperfect knowledge | 5 answers |
| Incomprehension | 7 answers |
| untaught state | 8 answers |
| credulity | 12 answers |
| trustfulness | 12 answers |
| Gullibility. | 12 answers |
| guiltlessness | 12 answers |
| obliviousness | 13 answers |
| nescience | 13 answers |
| fish out of water | 15 answers |
| incapacity | 25 answers |
| gaucherie | 30 answers |
| Naiveté | 37 answers |
| unfamiliarity | 37 answers |
| Unawareness | 38 answers |
| incompetence | 38 answers |
| Artlessness | 39 answers |
| Inexperience | 43 answers |
| innocence | 60 answers |
| ignoramus | 67 answers |
| Inattention | 68 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with ILLITERACY (5)
Above the sneers of critics at the obvious defects of this procedure must ever stand its one crushing rejoinder: in a single generation they put thirty thousand black teachers in the South; they wiped out the illiteracy of the majority of the black people of the land, and they made Tuskegee possible.
The census has already sounded the alarm in the appalling figures which mark how dangerously high the tide of illiteracy has risen among our voters and their children.
Geoffrey Dawling had on his return to England written me two or three letters: his last information had been that he was going into the figures of rural illiteracy.
The report brings automatically into view the vicious circle of child-labor, illiteracy, bodily and mental defect, poverty and delinquency.
Eritrea's economic future depends on its ability to master fundamental social and economic problems, e.g., overcoming illiteracy, promoting job creation, expanding technical training, attracting foreign investment, and streamlining the bureaucracy.
Quotes with ILLITERACY (3)
To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of violence. The confusion of the possessive "its" (no apostrophe) with the contractive "it's" (with apostrophe) is an unequivocal signal of illiteracy and sets off a Pavlovian "kill" response in the average stickler.
Ignorance is a knowledge illiteracy.
Illiteracy breeds more ignorance than you can ever imagine.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1950).