[{"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["preceding; prior:an event.Synonyms: preexistent , precursory Antonyms: subsequent"]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a preceding circumstance, event, object, style, phenomenon, etc.Synonyms: ancestor , forerunner , precursor Antonyms: successor", "antecedents, ancestors .the history, events, characteristics, etc., of one's earlier life:Little is known about his birth and antecedents.", "ancestors .", "the history, events, characteristics, etc., of one's earlier life:Little is known about his birth and antecedents.", "Grammar.a word, phrase, or clause, usually a substantive, that is replaced by a pronoun or other substitute later, or occasionally earlier, in the same or in another, usually subsequent, sentence. In Jane lost a glove and she can't find it, Janeis the antecedent ofsheandgloveis the antecedent ofit.", "Mathematics.the first term of a ratio; the first or third term of a proportion.the first of two vectors in a dyad.", "the first term of a ratio; the first or third term of a proportion.", "the first of two vectors in a dyad.", "Logic.the conditional element in a proposition, as “Caesar conquered Gaul,” in “If Caesar conquered Gaul, he was a great general.”"]}]