Selection from Boccaccio's Decameron

1) irksome - having the ability to bother; bothersome

2) ponderous - thought provoking; important; heavy

3) havoc - destruction; devastation; ruin

4) invariably - always; without fail

5) mirth - merriment; jocularity; fun

6) pestilence - plague

7) iniquitous - wrong; immoral; evil

8) pious - holy

9) bereavement - the act of mourning

10) infallible - faultless; certain; never wrong

11) maladies - illnesses

12) abstemious - moderate; self-restraining; neither too much nor too little

13) callously - without feeling or emotion

14) affliction - illness

15) efficacious - effective

16) abandon (n) - wildness

17) languish - to weaken, fade or waste away

18) scruples - hesitance; manners

19) virulence - harshness

20) dirge - a melancholy song or hymn usually played or sung at a funeral