MEMORY
RAM, computer memory used for the temporary storage of data, is short for this.
Random Access Memory
Known as a poison, it's also used to extract gold.
Cyanide
Italian pie joint
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pizzeria
Let's have one of these alliterative 2-word sleepovers.
pajama party
What's that noise? Oh, it's this wooden shoe dance; go, Grandma, go!
a clog dance
Serta offers Cool Action Gel Memory Foam for "more support where you need it most" in one of these.
a mattress
It describes a witness worthy of belief; that's...!
credible
Cologne cousin
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perfume
I'll skip the crawfish pie & file gumbo, but pas me this rice, meat & seafood dish.
jambalaya
To terminate communication with a computer system; please do it every night before you leave the office.
log out
"Memory, all alone in the moonlight, I can smile at the old days, I was beautiful then" is sung in this Broadway musical.
Cats
To turn sour or congeal; when you're scared, your blood is said to do this.
curdle
Dry period in U.S. history
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prohibition
Slang for money, particularly in $100 form.
Benjamins
An accumulation of work or customer orders that should have been dealt with already.
Remembering info by using a rhyme, like "Ask for clues from 1 to 5, or you won't leave the stage alive" is this type of "device".
a mnemonic device
It can be a small waterfall, an outpouring of objects or events, or a simple juggling pattern.
cascade
Big shrimp
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prawn
It's paired with "Kashmir" in the name of an Indian state.
Jammu
In mathematics, it's the exponent to which a base is raised.
logarithm
Many colleges now give notifications that class material might remind students of remembered trauma-- "these" warnings.
trigger
The rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds.
cadence
Step-counting gadget
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pedometer
In poetry: the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
enjambment
Someone who completely buys into a belief of set of doctrines & follows it to the letter.
ideologue