| A | B |
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| biography | a written account of another person's life |
| biology | the study of living things |
| biomorphic | a painted, drawn, or sculptured free form or design suggestive in shape of a living organism, esp. an ameba or protozoan |
| biochemistry | chemistry of living matter |
| exobiology | the study of life beyond the earth's atmosphere, as on other planets |
| biogenesis | The principle that living organisms develop only from other living organisms and not from nonliving matter |
| autobiography | written account of a person's own life |
| automobile | A self-propelled passenger vehicle that usually has four wheels and an internal-combustion engine, used for land transport |
| autograph | a person's own signature |
| automatic | having the capability of starting, operating, moving, etc., independently |
| automaton | mechanical figure or contrivance constructed to act as if by its own motive power; robot |
| autocracy | government in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited authority over others; the government or power of an absolute monarch |
| autonomy | independence or freedom, as of the will or one's actions |
| transport | to carry, move, or convey from one place to another |
| import | To bring or carry in from an outside source, especially to bring in (goods or materials) from a foreign country for trade or sale |
| report | To relate or tell about; present |
| porter | a person hired to carry burdens or baggage, as at a railroad station or a hotel. |
| deport | to expel (an alien) from a country; banish |
| important | of much or great significance or consequence |
| portage | the carrying of boats, goods, etc., overland from one navigable water to another |
| portly | rather heavy or fat; stout; corpulent |
| comport | to bear or conduct (oneself); behave |
| scribble | to write hastily or carelessly |
| inscribe | to mark (a surface) with words, characters, etc., esp. in a durable or conspicuous way. |
| scribe | a writer; a person who serves as a professional copyist, esp. one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing |
| describe | to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of |
| conscription | compulsory enrollment of persons for military or naval service; draft |
| transcribe | to make a written copy, esp. a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material) |
| ascribe | to attribute to a cause or source |
| anthropology | study of human cultures |
| geology | study of the earth |
| entomology | study of insects |
| etymology | study of word origins |
| philology | Literary study or classical scholarship; historical linguistics (The study of linguistic change over time in language or in a particular language or language family) |
| mythology | study of myths and legends |
