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   defect

   noun

   • 1. a shortcoming, imperfection, or lack: "genetic defects"

   Word Origin late Middle English (as a noun, influenced by Old French defect ‘deficiency’): from Latin defectus, past participle of deficere ‘desert or fail’, from de- (expressing reversal) + facere ‘do’.

   Scrabble Points: 12

   • D

     2

   • E

     1

   • F

     4

   • E

     1

   • C

     3

   • T

     1

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