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   biography

   /bʌɪˈɒɡrəfi/

   noun

   • 1. an account of someone's life written by someone else.
   • ▪ biographies considered as a literary genre: "the basic difference of approach to autobiography and biography"
   • ▪ the course of a person's life: "although their individual biographies are different, both are motivated by a similar ambition"

   Word Origin late 17th century: from French biographie or modern Latin biographia, from medieval Greek, from bios ‘life’ + -graphia ‘writing’.

   Scrabble Points: 20

   • B

     3

   • I

     1

   • O

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   • G

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   • R

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   • A

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   • P

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   • H

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   • Y

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