Difference between Fail and Flunk

FAIL vs FLUNK: NOUN

Lack; absence or cessation.
A failing grade.
Failure; deficiency: now only in the phrase without fail (which see, below).
A failure, failing, or fault.
A piece cut off from the rest of the sward; a turf; a sod.
A woman's upper garment. Halliwell. See faille.
Miscarriage; failure; deficiency; fault; -- mostly superseded by failure or failing, except in the phrase without fail.
Death; decease.

Failure to reach a minimum required performance
A failure or backing out.
A failure.
A failing grade.
A failure or back-down; in colleges, a complete failure in a recitation or an examination.

To give such a grade of failure to (a student).
To be detected by (a drug test) as having used a banned substance.
To fall away; to become diminished; to decline; to decay; to sink.
To leave undone; neglect.
To omit to perform (an expected duty, for example).
To abandon; forsake.
To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expected manner, or to be altogether cut off from supply; to be lacking
To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; -- used with of.
To prove deficient or lacking; perform ineffectively or inadequately.
To be unsuccessful.
To be unsuccessful in being acted upon.
To receive an academic grade below the acceptable minimum.
To prove insufficient in quantity or duration; give out.
To decline, as in strength or effectiveness.
To cease functioning properly.
To give way or be made otherwise useless as a result of excessive strain.
To come short of a result or object aimed at or desired ; to be baffled or frusrated.
To disappoint or prove undependable to.
To err in judgment; to be mistaken.
To be found wanting with respect to an action or a duty to be performed, a result to be secured, etc.; to miss; not to fulfill expectation.
To perish; to die; -- used of a person.
To deteriorate in respect to vigor, activity, resources, etc.; to become weaker.
To become bankrupt or insolvent.

Abandon, forsake
Become bankrupt or insolvent
Fail financially and close
Leave something undone
To deceive; delude; mislead.
To come short of; miss; lack.
To omit; leave unbestowed or unperformed; neglect to keep or observe: as, to fail an appointment.
To be wanting to; disappoint; desert; leave in the lurch.
To break, suspend payment.
Disappoint, prove undependable to
To wane, fade, weaken.
=Syn, 1. To fall short, come short, give out.
To become unable to meet one's engagements, especially one's debts or business obligations; become insolvent or bankrupt.
To come short or be wanting in action, detail, or result; disappoint or prove lacking in what is attempted, expected, desired, or approved: often followed by an infinitive or by of or in: as, he failed to come; the experiment failed of success; he fails in duty; the portrait fails in expression.
To decline; sink; grow faint; become weaker.
To be or become deficient or lacking, as something expected or desired; fall short, cease, disappear, or be wanting, either wholly or partially; be insufficient or absent: as, the stream fails in summer; our supplies failed.
Fail to do something
Deteriorate
To come to naught, prove abortive.
(idiom) (without fail) With no chance of failure.

To fail or give up; break down or back down, as from incompetence or fear: often with out: as, to flunk in a school recitation or examination; to flunk out from a contest.
To cause to fail, as in a recitation or an examination.

Give way, Conk out, Give out, Flush it, Run out, Break down, Go wrong, Bomb, Break, Miscarry, Go, Betray, Neglect, Die, Flunk

Plagiarize, Resitting, Cheat, Procrastinate, Enroll, Miss, Admit, Invigilate, Botch, Matriculate, Resit, Outs, Flush it, Bomb, Fail

Falter, Refuse, Failure, Give way, Give out, Conk out, Break down, Go wrong, Bomb, Break, Miscarry, Betray, Neglect, Die, Flunk

Lose, Test, Suck, Resitting, Cheat, Procrastinate, Enroll, Miss, Admit, Invigilate, Botch, Matriculate, Resit, Outs, Bomb

The best business advice ever given is attributed to Benjamin Franklin: If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.
Those who fail to arrive on time or fail to attend will forfeit the class fee and will not receive CE credit.
If I fail this exam I fail the course.
Fail Big, Expanded Edition: Fail Your Way to Success and Break All the Rules to Get.
Does that mean HGST will never fail, and WD will always fail?
And even if I fail, I will stay committed to fail forward.
The reason most resumes fail is that they fail to list the right skills.
The ppl who fail with certo are fuckin retards who deserve to fail.
Software does not fail, but hardware and firmware can fail.
Employers who fail to comply, or fail to comply on time, or fail to properly document their compliance, will face stiff financial penalties.

Teams with scores under 925 lose scholarships when students flunk out.
Duck, tuck, truck, cluck, buck, and oat, flunk, trunk, shrunk junk.
Maybe it's harder to flunk out of university these days.
May not care if flunk IRA Trust Rules in someinstances.
But what should you do when workers flunk the test?
Being people, they face ethical challenges and sometimes flunk them.
Grandpapa can swankily flunk towards the bashfully incorporeal brocade.
How to Flunk Out With Style and Grace.
Oh, Lord, if I flunk it, Ill die.
Should you use any electronic device during an examination or quiz, you will automatically flunk that graded assignment, and you may flunk the course.