Flak
Flak noun - Artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes.
Reputation and flak are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reputation" instead a noun "Flak".
Reputation
Reputation noun - Overall quality as seen or judged by people in general.
Flak and reputation are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Flak" instead a noun "Reputation".
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Observation balloons were unarmed, but very heavily protected by fighters and flak; the few pilots who specialized in fighting them had a reputation for suicidal courage, by the standards of a profession in which one's life expectancy was about a week.
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Reputation and Flak. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 10, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/flak/reputation
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