liter

Usage

• alliteration

  Alliteration is a device used in speech or writing in which several consecutive words all begin with the same sound or letter, the latter usually a consonant.

• literal

  The literal meaning of a sentence is the exact, accurate, or basic meaning of it, taking it word for word.

• illiterate

  not able to read or write

• letter

  win an athletic letter

• literacy

  the ability to read and write

• literati

  the literary intelligentsia

• literature

  creative writing of recognized artistic value

• obliteration

  destruction by annihilating something

• transliterate

  rewrite in a different script