[{"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["distributed or occurring here and there at irregular intervals; scattered . scattered .", "straggling, as an assemblage of parts.", "(of votes) cast in small numbers for various candidates.", "distributing, dispersing, or separating."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a small, scattered scatterednumber or quantity.", "Physics.the process in which a wave or beam of particles is diffused or deflected by collisions with particles of the medium that it traverses."]}]