literate vs shallow

literate

noun
  • A person who was educated but had not taken a university degree; especially a candidate to take holy orders. 

  • A person who is able to read and write. 

adj
  • Which is used in writing (of a language or dialect). 

  • Able to read and write; having literacy. 

  • Knowledgeable in literature, writing; literary; well-read. 

shallow

adj
  • Not steep; close to horizontal. 

  • Not far forward, close to the net. 

  • Having little depth; significantly less deep than wide. 

  • Not intellectually deep; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing. 

  • Concerned mainly with superficial matters. 

  • Extending not far downward. 

  • Lacking interest or substance. 

verb
  • To make or become less deep. 

noun
  • A costermonger's barrow. 

  • A shallow portion of an otherwise deep body of water. 

  • A fish, the rudd. 

How often have the words literate and shallow occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )