| bingo |
a game in which players try to match numbers on a card with numbers read out by a caller. Each player has a card with numbered squares. The player who is the first to cover a whole row of squares is the winner. |
| bookworm |
a person who loves to study and read books. [1/2 definitions] |
| Braille |
(often lowercase) a writing and printing system for blind people, in which patterns of raised dots are used to represent letters. Blind people touch the dots with their fingers to read. |
| chant |
to read or speak in a chant. [1/4 definitions] |
| compact disk |
a small disk on which music or information is stored. A compact disk is played on a machine that uses a laser to read it. |
| deliver |
to speak or read aloud. [1/5 definitions] |
| dictate |
to say or read aloud for someone to write down or for a machine to record. [1/3 definitions] |
| illegible |
difficult or impossible to read. |
| illiterate |
not able to read or write. |
| interrogative sentence |
a sentence that asks a question. "Have you read this book?" is an example of an interrogative sentence. |
| legible |
able to be understood or read. |
| literacy |
the state of being able to read or write. |
| literary |
having to do with literature or those who write or read literature. [1/2 definitions] |
| literate |
able to read and write. [1/2 definitions] |
| misread |
to read or understand incorrectly. |
| news |
(used with a singular verb) a report of recent important events, read out on the television or radio, or printed in a newspaper, magazine, or Web site. |
| pore1 |
to study or read carefully. |
| publish |
to prepare and bring out for sale for the public to read. |
| reread |
to read (something) again. |
| review |
a looking back over things done, read, or studied previously. [1/7 definitions] |
| ROM |
computer memory that can only be read, not written to. "ROM" stands for "read-only memory." |