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downplaying
The act by which something is downplayed, or made to seem less important
upvote
A vote for something that increases a cumulative tally of popularity
gaikai
It's an idea tried and failed many times over (GPU hosted games in the cloud,.
buffs
Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals
destroyfvkeyonstandby
FileVault 2 does support purging keys on sleep: sudo pmset -a destroyfvkeyonstandby 1 hibernatemode 25.
gypsies
An album by Argentine composer, pianist and conductor Lalo Schifrin, recorded in 1978 and released.
paedophile
Commonwealth standard spelling of pedophile
non-profit
Alternative form of nonprofit
human-readable
Of writing, without excessive jargon
dramatised
The trouble is, no-one knows whether this kind of concern is over-dramatised or not any.
doused
To put out
multinationals
A multinational company
preprandial
A predinner drink
elative
In Semitic languages, the “adjective degree of superiority”. In some languages such as Arabic, the.
contended
To try to cope with a difficulty or problem. [with with]