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Synonyms for flunk

fail

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  • fail
  • screw up
  • flop in
  • plough
  • be unsuccessful in
  • not make the grade at
  • not come up to scratch in
  • not come up to the mark in
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for flunk

to receive less than a passing grade

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Synonyms for flunk

failure to reach a minimum required performance

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fail to get a passing grade

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Chandigarh (Punjab) [India] May 11( ANI ): Just when the Punjab government was contemplating of introducing the Chinese language Mandarin in state schools, over 27,000 students of Class 10 of the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) flunked in Punjabi paper.
A SCHOOL is launching a series of appeals after almost an entire class flunked their Philosophy Higher.
We adore Kate and Liv, but they flunked the lesbian chemistry lab.
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"His team just flunked yet another of many missile tests, Gramps.
Today, children are being flunked, denied access to a preferred program or school, or even refused a high school diploma on the basis of a single standardized test.
In her younger days, Annette nearly flunked out of drama class at school for being lazy.
Bobby has already flunked a number of widely used Web sites, including the White House site, where the software identified "13 accessibility problems that should be fixed in order to make this page accessible to people with disabilities."
REMEMBER the bold headlines in April 1998, when 59% of first-round takers of the Massachusetts licensing tests for prospective teachers flunked at least one portion of the exams?
Mr Peter Dunn, a Warwick University spokesman, said: "I can only think the person who calculated these figures flunked their own maths course.
Maybe the "minimal effectiveness" of many hightech weapons that Dunnigan laments results from the fact that they flunked their tests and were deployed anyway--or weren't tested at all to gauge performance.
The Poo-uli had again flunked a smell test, suggesting it's a bird of a different sort.
Only 5% of respondents gave the president an A for his ads, 21% rated them as B, 21% also gave the ads a C, 17% said they were below average with a D, while 34% flunked them outright with an F.
Harington also spoofed screen tests for the roles of Daenerys Targaryen, Arya Stark, Hodor, Ygritte and a White Walker, but 'flunked' in trying to impress the show's producers.