GRE vocabulary
flagrant
conspicuously and outrageously bad or offensive
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Common questions
Questions about “flagrant”
Flagrant (adjective) means conspicuously and outrageously bad or offensive
Here is flagrant used in an example sentence: "The referee called a flagrant foul that even the home crowd could not dispute."
Common synonyms for flagrant include blatant, egregious, glaring.
Antonyms of flagrant include subtle, inconspicuous, minor.
Flagrant is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.
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