Converse of object

• eradicate: There is a mass campaign aiming to mobilize 100,000 teachers with the aim of eradicating illiteracy.

• eliminate: Iraq was honored by UNESCO in 1981 for being the first developing country to eliminate illiteracy.

• tackle: Increasingly, sport is being used to help deliver social policy objectives, such as tackling illiteracy, drug taking and social exclusion.

• reduce: Objectives of the decade include reducing illiteracy, especially among women.

• combat: In 1990 the Order received a UNESCO award for its work in combatting illiteracy across the world.

Preposition: in

• country: A quite remarkable literacy campaign reduced illiteracy in the country to less than one seventh.

• area: Again, I get tired of people saying there's twenty two percent illiteracy in the area.

Adjective modifier

• functional: This functional illiteracy means that even the nuances of stories from basic tabloid newspapers are beyond the reach of many deaf adults.

• widespread: The fad of whole-language teaching has led to widespread illiteracy among U.S. students ' .

• scientific: We fail to overcome the scientific illiteracy in the media.

• female: This index measures mortality rate, male life expectancy and female illiteracy.

• mass: Nor is it acceptable to countenance a future in which mass illiteracy consigns Africa to a marginal role in an increasingly knowledge-based global economy.

• economic: Because public opinion suffers from severe economic illiteracy, democracies tend to supply economic policies that leave much to be desired.

Modifies a noun

• rate: Morocco currently has an illiteracy rate of 64 % among women.

• level: They have the highest infant mortality rates and the highest illiteracy levels.

Noun used with modifier

• adult: Adult illiteracy fell from 29 percent in 1985 to 24 percent in 1990.

• computer: Less surprising is the finding that computer illiteracy rises with age.

• technology: Microsoft seeks to remove the limits to individual potential around the world by eliminating technology illiteracy.

• %: The 25 % illiteracy rates at the time of the revolution are virtually eliminated.

• youth: The Cuban youth illiteracy rate is zero, unmatched by any other Latin American country, where the average is 7 % .