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List #9 The Art of Losing


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squanderto spend extravagantly
dissipationloss by literal scattering or dispersing or a specialized scattering of one’s energy through trivial pleasures
disenfranchiseto deprive of a right or to lose the right to vote
forfeiturea penalty or giving up of something in one’s possession
denudeto make bare
privationdeprived of basic necessities or comforts
divestgetting rid of or taking away
renounceto give up something; literally it means to condemn openly
elegiacexpression sadness or regret
bereaveto leave desolate usually by death; a sense of abandonment or loss