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accepted
Adjective
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Accepted ideas are agreed by most people to be correct or reasonable.
There is no generally accepted definition of life.
It is accepted wisdom that science has been partly responsible for the decline of religion.
defect
Noun
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A defect in something is a mistake or problem that makes the thing not perfect.
This gem has a defect, so it is not worth much.
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A defect is something that is not perfect.
defect
Verb
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If you defect from a group or country, you leave it and join a different side.
In 1961, defected from Russia.