Answer:
Privation, toilsome, despondent, protocol, redress.
Explanation:
Vedant endured <u>privation</u> as a child living in the slums of Mumbai, making pennies a day through the <u>toilsome</u> job of sorting through bits of recyclable trash. Losing his mother and older brother to disease left Vedant <u>despondent,</u> even among his friends, because his losses left him feeling that the proper <u>protocol</u> for survival would be to avoid getting close to anyone, lest they go away like his family. Fortunately, Vedant was able to escape his poverty as a teenager and later, as a married man of modest success, look back and <u>redress</u> his dire philosophy of life, having learned to seek the comforts of friendship.
<em>Privation</em><em>- lacking in the essentials of human growth and development such as food and warmth of the family love or comfort.</em>
<em>Toilsome-</em><em> to be involved in hard work, something that requires strenous working activity.</em>
<em>Despondent</em><em>- losing hope or courage as a result of any missing family love or encouragement from loved ones.</em>
<em>Protocol</em><em>- the procedure or systematic governing of things, the 'accepted' ways of doing things.</em>
<em>redress</em><em>- to rectify, to remedy, to correct what was done wrong before.</em>