Psych
Using a small request to get a yes to a bigger one is this technique named for a body part & a portal
foot in the door
Dwayne Johnson plays a primatologist who cares for a big white gorilla in this 2018 video game adaptation
Rampage
The Herschel, an infrared telescope then the largest sent into space, was launched in 2009 by this Paris-HQed NASA counterpart
the European Space Agency
This name of seafaring warriors of around the year 1000 is from a Scandinavian word for "pirate"
Viking
Monza Murcatto, thrown from a great height & left for dead, later gets revenge in Joe Abercrombie's "Best Served" this
Cold
Psychologists now often call autism "ASD", the "S" for this term, representing the condition's wide range of symptoms
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Referring to a false promise, "The cake is a lie" became a famous meme that sprang from this Valve game
Portal
"Edgeworth" sometimes precedes another name in the name of this belt of distant objects
the Kuiper Belt
Symbolizing this new dual monarchy, in 1868, Empress Elisabeth, or Sissi, traveled to have her youngest be born a Buda baby
Austria-Hungary
In a book by Gail Carson Levine, obedience is the curse of this title girl, "Enchanted"; she also pines for Prince Charmont
Ella
Around 1880 Dr. Charles Lasegue described this impulse control disorder involving theft as typical of housewives
kleptomania
Slaughtering demons in outer space was the goal when this "fateful" 1st-person shooter came out in 1993; by 2020, it was "Eternal"
Doom
This word for when the Moon is between half & full can be pronounced with either a hard or soft "G" sound
gibbous
In 346 B.C., Athens made the Peace of Philocrates with this northern kingdom soon to spread to empire size
Macedonia
S.A. Chakraborty's "City of Brass" has Nahri team up with Dara, one of these mystical creatures whose name starts with a silent "D"
a djinn
A 2022 revision of the DSM-5 includes PGD, short for this lasting disorder that can follow the death of a loved one
prolonged grief disorder
George R.R. Martin helped with the lore for this sword & sorcery title that won a 2022 game of the year trophy
Elden Ring
Whether you answer the short way or the long way, Jupiter is still 5.2 of these measurements from the Sun
astronomical units
Now written in the Latin alphabet, Moldova's language used to be written in this alphabet named for a 9th century priest
Cyrillic
In P. Djèlí Clark's "Ring Shout", klansmen summon demons during a viewing of this 1915 D.W. Griffith film
The Birth of a nation
In psychoanalysis, this term refers to a patient projecting emotions from a previous relationship onto the therapist
transference
Milla Jovovich has been Alice in all 6 films in this franchise based on a horror game
Resident Evil
This word with a non-spacey meaning of "preference" refers to the angle between the orbital & ecliptic planes
inclination
In 1598 this edict named for the city where it was signed gave religious freedom to the French Protestants called Huguenots
Nantes
This "Remains of the Day" author wrote fantasy with "The Buried Giant", set years after the death of King Arthur
Ishiguro