[{"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["greatly distressed or troubled by bodily or mental pain:The severity of these symptoms predicts how well the afflicted individuals can live independently and maintain employment."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Usuallythe afflicted.a person or persons distressed or troubled in such a way:Behind each of these killer diseases is the pain of despair, loneliness, and loss in the lives of the bereaved and the afflicted."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb", "List Items": ["the simple past tense and past participle of afflict(def) afflict(def)."]}]