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   me·phit·ic

   /məˈfidik/

   adjective

   • 1. (especially of a gas or vapor) foul-smelling; noxious: literary "the cloud of mephitic vapors lingered above our heads"

   Word Origin early 17th century: from late Latin mephiticus, from mephitis ‘noxious exhalation’.

   Scrabble Points: 17

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