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To Ottawa, Canada
Washington, D.C.
Change the last 2 letters in "flow" to get this term for the rate of flow through an area
flux
A delusion that your life is scripted & being filmed has been named by doctors after this Jim Carrey film
The Truman Show
As a poker term, it's a word on its own; as a prefix, it means "before"
ante
Part of the Boy Scout law, it refers to one complying with authority, like a good dog
obedient
Katniss
Jennifer Lawrence
To Canberra, Australia
Wellington, New Zealand
2 basic types of motion are moving along a line & this type of movement around an axis
rotational movement
Adjective for info received by the brain on an unconscious level, from the Latin for "below the threshold"
subliminal
Another word for your rump, this word also means subsequent
posterior
This word that also means "trifling" follows "Times" in the name of a New Orleans newspaper
picayune
Jake Shuttlesworth,
Easy Rawlins
Denzel Washington
To Paris, France
Brussels (Belgium)
This "O" word refers to 1 complete cycle of a pendulum; the time it takes is called the period
oscillation
Sometimes used in police work, hypermnesia is the technique of increasing a person's memory using this
hypnosis
Adverb heard often in viewing scenes from the last episode of a show, as in this "on AMC's 'The Walking Dead'..."
previously
It's the U.S. military's equivalent of a prison
stockade
J,
Bagger,
Tea Cake Walters
Will Smith
To Rabat, Morocco
Lisbon, Portugal
Victor Hess showed that certain rays intensify with altitude, so they must be from space; Robert Millikan named them these
cosmic rays
Ablutomania is an obsession with doing this
washing
As well as ensuing, it can mean accomplishing a goal
succeeding
It's the type of vehicle seen here
a rickshaw
Renton,
Obi-Wan Kenobi,
Phillip Morris,
Rodney Copperbottom
Ewan McGregor
To Tokyo, Japan
Seoul, Korea
There are rates of this not just for electricity but for heat; copper is 15,000 times faster than air
conductivity
It's "de" treatment of a phobia by gradual exposure to the source of the fear
desensitization
This Shakespearean 3-letter word means before
ere
c. 1666 a British work used this word for a literal barrier; a 1971 text on operating system principles gave it a new sense
a firewall
Cataleya,
Graciela,
Gamora,
Neytiri,
Uhura
Zoe Saldana