Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, The pangs of dispriz’d love, the law’s delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?

“Dispriz’d” means treated as worthless or rejected, and “pangs” are sharp emotional pains. In this passage, “the pangs of dispriz’d love” refers to the heartache caused by love that is rejected or unappreciated, so “heartache” is the best choice.

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