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Vocabulary: reading and writing

After the lessons about Economics and Business, I have felt like coming back to something much lighter, less difficult, though equally important and useful: READING and WRITING.

In this lesson, you will be able to review many very common and useful words.

To read/ a reader	To read something aloud
To read to sb	A bedside book
To scan stg/ skim through stg	To leaf/ to browse through a book
To write/ in writing	In alphabetical order/ alphabetically
Illiterate/ illiteracy	Handwritten
To inscribe a book to	An inscription
To make a note of stg To write/ jot stg down	To take notes

- I can't make it out...(I can't read what's written...)

A good handwriting

An illegible note

To print	In block letters In block capitals
In capitals In capital letters	In black and white
Legible/ illegible	To have good/ poor handwriting
To scrawl/ a scrawl	To scribble/ a scribble
Spelling	A draft
A rough copy	A fair copy

A draft

To edit a document

A business letter

To rub something out/ erase	To delete something
To strike something out To score something out	To edit something
To write something up	To rewrite
To reword	To copy something out
To write a letter to someone	A business letter
A note/ a line	To drop a line to somebody

To reword

To drop a line to someone

Of course, there are many words in this lesson, but you already know most of them, don't you? Go for the test!

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