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Didn't make the grade?
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flunked
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Flunked is a 2008 documentary film narrated by Joe Mantegna , that discusses the problems in America's education system and provides education reform solutions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flunk \Flunk\ (fl[u^ ng]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flunked (fl[u^ ng]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Flunking .] [Cf. Funk .] To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear.
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: flunk)
Usage examples of flunked.
He clapped his arm about my shoulder and cheerfully flunked himself for "always saying the wrong durn thing.
Even Harold Bray's, that weirdly glinted when he flunked Dean Taliped from the stage and bid all follow him through the mystery to Commencement.
Out of patience, I harangued him on the subjects both of his miserliness and of his contempt for Graduation, declaring that even if Bray were a genuine Grand Tutor and the ground of his Certification valid -- neither of which was the case -- he Ira Hector was flunked nonetheless.
That I should abide there among the flunked forever I did not question: I had failed everything, everyone, in every sense.
He had been a love-lover, hating hate, and I'd thought him flunked for being not free of that latter passion after all, and vain in his choice to suffer.
He'd gone then to the roadside and brooded until Croaker and I overtook him next day, by which time he'd come round to seeing he was flunked, and choosing to suffer for the crime of murder.
To withdraw from the trials and errors of this campus, sit under an elm, and meditate upon the unutterable Answer -- that was the way to Commencement Gate, I saw now, the sole Way, and I meant to follow His example as soon as I flunked WESCAC.
Greene agreed, but added that in his opinion Grand Tutors should have no traffic with the flunked likes of Lacey Stoker.
I understood: as I had formerly declared myself passed and he me failed, now that I owned myself flunked he would pass and Certify me to the student body, even dub me Grand Tutor with a rap on the scapula -- his Assignment on this campus (as he'd told me in March, when things had gone badly) and the explanation of his survival!
I had stood high enough without standing so high as to be marked as a greasy grind, having never flunked any courses and dropped only one, and I had been rather a big man around school otherwise: swimming team, debate team, track squad, class treasurer, silver medal in the annual literary contest, chairman of the homecoming committee, stuff like that.
If I flunked math, I'd revert to buck sergeant, which is better than being slapped in the face with a wet fish any way you think about it .
If I flunked math, I’d revert to buck sergeant, which is better than being slapped in the face with a wet fish any way you think about it .
He flunked a French quiz, blew off the little English paper in the class we shared ('Who gives a fuck about ties, I eat at McDonald's' he said), and scraped through a quiz in some other history division by scanning an admirer's notes just before class.
I got an A-minus on my in-class English theme and a D in European History, but flunked the Sociology multiple-choicer and the Geology multiple-choicer — soash by a little and geo by a lot.
Skip flunked his Anthropology prelim, his Colonial History prelim, and the soash prelim.