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   flunk

   /flʌŋk/

   verb

   • 1. fail to reach the required standard in (an examination, test, or course of study): informal North American "I flunked biology in the tenth grade"
   • ▪ judge (an examination candidate) to have failed to reach the required standard. informal North American
   • ▪ (of a student) leave or be dismissed from school or college as a result of failing to reach the required standard: informal North American "Tip flunked out of Caltech and moved back home"

   Word Origin early 19th century (in the general sense ‘back down, fail utterly’; originally US): perhaps related to funk2 or to US flink ‘be a coward’, perhaps a variant of flinch.

   Scrabble Points: 12

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