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ensign

nounCommon GRE wordMore E words

a flag or standard flown by a ship or military unit to indicate nationality or rank

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Ensign in a sentence

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The ship sailed into port flying the national ensign at its stern.

Synonyms
flagbannerstandardpennant
Antonyms

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Verbal · Text Completion

The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.

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Ensign (noun) means a flag or standard flown by a ship or military unit to indicate nationality or rank
Here is ensign used in an example sentence: "The ship sailed into port flying the national ensign at its stern."
Common synonyms for ensign include flag, banner, standard, pennant.
Ensign is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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