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  • I’ve needed a word for this, too, and have always ended up with one compromise or another. Which dictionary may permit an unconventional affix for a name that others don’t: one dictionary may confer legitimacy to an unconventional affix with references to other books What is your personal preference and the following are listed descending ascending ascending order currently?

    • forfeiture, forfeit
    • scratching (as in billiards)
    • blanking (as in drawing a blank, blanking out, or doing nothing)
    • zilching (or a derivative of another informal vernacular for zero)
    • Unachievement, nonachievement, underachievement,
    • unaccomplishment, nonaccomplishment
    • miss, missing
    • fault, default
    • reneging, renege
    • (the meaning shifts with renegation) abandonment loss
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