Neon Greek New Flashcards

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is an actress from Camarillo, California who is best known for playing Penny, the female lead on the sitcom “The Big Bang Theory”. Her love interest in the show is played by Johnny Galecki, and the two were romantically involved in real life for a couple of years. She also got a lot of exposure playing William Shatner’s daughter on priceline.com ads, and playing a genie in Toyota RAV4 commercials.

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Kaley Cuoco

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first Chinese-American to appear regularly on SNL.

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Bowen Yang is an actor and comedian who joined the cast of “Saturday Night Live” in 2019, after working for a year with the show’s writing staff. When Yang became a cast member, he was the first Chinese-American to appear regularly on SNL.

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are a WNBA basketball team that plays home games at Wintrust Arena, located in the South Loop neighborhood of Chicago.

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The Chicago Sky
The Sky were founded in 2006, and the team’s mascot is a Sky Guy, a blue and yellow bird with a basketball for a head.

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The verb “” comes directly from Latin and means “I forbid”.

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veto

The term was used by tribunes of ancient Rome to indicate that they opposed measures passed by the Senate.

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There are four recognized varieties of poodle, based on size:

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The standard poodle
The medium poodle
The miniature poodle
The toy poodle

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Muslim pilgrim’s destination :

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MECCA
Mecca is in the Makkah province of Saudi Arabia. It was the birthplace of Muhammad and is the holiest city in Islam. Every year, several million Muslims perform the Hajj, a holy pilgrimage to Mecca.

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Not perfectly round :

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OBLATE
Something that is described as having an oblate shape is spherical and slightly depressed at top and bottom, just like the Earth, for example.

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“” came into American and Canadian English in the mid-1700s from the Dutch “” meaning “flight of steps”.

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stoop is a raised platform at the door of a house.

stoep Dutch

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is an area in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean that is famous for the loss of ships and aircraft under mysterious circumstances.

Also defined by

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The Bermuda Triangle

The triangular area is roughly defined by Miami, Florida, and the islands of Bermuda and Puerto Rico.

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In French, “” (yes) and ” (no)

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oui” (yes) or “non” (no) might be responses to “un questionnaire” (a questionnaire).

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” is a term used to describe the mouth or stomach of a carnivorous animal. “
” is also used as slang for the mouth or stomach of a greedy person.

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Maw

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Gulf States ruler :

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EMIR
The term “Gulf States” might mean “US states on the Gulf of Mexico”, or “Arab states in the Persian Gulf”.

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Francis drake was born in county of Devon and knighted in 1581 and made mayor of this English Channel port

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Plymouth

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In 1823 Hugh clapperton and his party explores Nigeria and became first Europeans to see this nearby large lake

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Lake Chad

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Marcel do shamp used mass produced objects called these like a bicycle wheel on a stool

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Readymade

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In legend the siege perilous was a seat at king Arthur’s round table reserved for the knight destined to do this

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Found the grail

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Alliterative items used to reduce friction

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Ball bearings

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Thr aldar headquarters building
23 stories tall is in this emirate

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Abu Dhabi
Southwest of Dubai

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In Latin fuscus meant dark hence this verb meaning to deliberately bewilder

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Obfuscate

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Kanye’s 10 year old daughter ; she raps on her dads 24 track talking once again

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Northwest

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Compton rapper that died in 95 but his son lil this is carrying on hip hop name

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Easy e

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Sculptures sometimes use heat and chemicals to produce this green surface film on their bronzes

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Patina

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Hip hop artist Chris rivers is the son of this big guy boen Christopher rios the first Latino solo rapper to go platinum

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Big pun

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Daughter of will smith
Also hit top 40 by doin this title quote repeatedly back and forth

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Willow
Whip my hair

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Cordell broadus son of this rapper who like us asked who am I was a wr foe ucla and street west fashion designer

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Snoop dog

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20th century books
Time mentioned cruelty and enforced conformity when summing up this novel with a stonily silent narrator

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One flew over the cuckoos nest ken Kesey
Chief bromden narrator - one of inmates

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Company?
Blue moon
Miller lite
Milwaukees best

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Molson Coors

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By end of 17 this bank faced criminal and civil suits of up to 2.7B due to practice of creating millions of fraudulent checking and a ings accounts without consent

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Wells Fargo

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2 related government sponsored enterprises on Fortune 500

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Fannie Mae
Freddie Mac
Both primarily associated with mortgages

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It doesn’t take a quantum leap to guess name of this large bone that provides structure to the gen uh tale yuh of a large whale

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Back yuh lum
Scott back yuh luh

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Countries that use imperial measuring system

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USA
Liberia - South west African nation led by footballer George way uh ; son Tim on US national team
Me ann mar -Asian nation embroiled in internal conflict

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Actor didn’t think it was funny when shouted this isn’t nom this is bowling at him
While visiting site of 75 boxing match between ali and Frazier

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John Goodman Manila

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Maybe star of handsmaid tale wqs doing some scene work when tan into her at st basil’s cathedral
Baz ul

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Elizabeth moss Moscow

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Striking occurrence to run into universal solider himself in what is arguably oldest continually inhabited city

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John Claude van damn Damascus

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I wasnt far From the shallows when running into this actor on beaches of Western Australia city where catching thr Darby between west coast and Fremantle

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Bradley cooper
Perth