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functionally illiterate

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Adj.1.functionally illiterate - having reading and writing skills insufficient for ordinary practical needs
illiterate - not able to read or write


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In 2004, perhaps out of befuddlement and frustration, a group of scholars declared that the ancient Indus Valley script marked only rudimentary pictograms and that the people during the Harappan period were functionally illiterate.
When I graduated from high school in 1980 I was functionally illiterate," he said.
When I graduated from high school in 1980 I was functionally illiterate," he said.
 
 
 
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