[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["an act or instance of destroying or devastating land, population, community, etc:The war’s desolation of the land destroyed years of hard and hopeful work.", "the state of being destroyed or devastated, as land, population, community, etc.:The utter desolation of the Western Front was captured in unforgettable photographs.", "dreariness; barrenness:The poet fashions a mood of desolation and despair in his works.", "deprivation of companionship; loneliness:Some homesteaders could not endure the desolation of life on the prairie, and returned to the city.", "sorrow; grief; woe:She was so deep in her desolation, we don’t know if our words of comfort reached her.", "a desolate :The town was once a desolation."]}]