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able to read and write
- I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste.p. 22.5
literate = able to read
There are no more uses of "literate" in To Kill a Mockingbird.
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