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bibliography (bib" lee AHG ruh fee) (noun)
A listing, often descriptive, of materials, with information relating to a specific subject: The student compiled an extensive bibliography of materials available in the library to give to the professor.
biography (bigh AHG ruh fee) (noun)
Usually the written account of a person's life: Elizabeth Gaskell wrote the biography of Charlotte Bronte at the request of the Bronte family.

Barry's thesis consisted of an annotated bibliography of all the biography books in the library.

This entry is located in the following unit: Confusing Words Clarified: Group B; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. (page 5)
biography (s) (noun), biographies (pl)
1. The history of the lives of individual men and women, as a branch of literature.
2. The written record of the life of an individual.
3. The life-course of a man or other living being; the “life-history” of an animal or plant.

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.

—Lawrence Welk

A biography is a book that is usually written about a dead person because it is so unlike him when he was alive.

—Evan Esar
This entry is located in the following units: bio-, bi-, -bia, -bial, -bian, -bion, -biont, -bius, -biosis, -bium, -biotic, -biotical (page 16) grapho-, graph-, -graph, -graphy, -grapher, -graphia (page 11)
Roentgen Biography
(Conrad Röntgen (Roentgen), Discoverer of X-rays)