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Illiterate

Unable to read or write ignorant of letters or books unlettered uninstructed uneducated as an illiterate man or people

Lesson

Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner something as a portion of a book assigned

Misread

To read amiss to misunderstand in reading

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Dittology

A double reading or twofold interpretation as of a Scripture text

Sightsman

One who reads or performs music readily at first sight

Reader

One who reads

Muscle reading

discovering the whereabouts of hidden objects etc by inference from the involuntary movements of one whose hand the reader holds or with whom he is otherwise in muscular contact

Bookish

Given to reading fond of study better acquainted with books than with men learned from books

And, or

And, or, it is well settled that 'and' is capable of being read as 'or', if the context demands it to be so read. The word 'or' is normally disjunctive and

Deposition

incontrovertible rule at Common Law, that when the witness himself can be produced, his deposition may not be read, for it is not the best evidence. But it may be read not only where it appears that

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