[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.", "Pathology.a mass or layer of dead tissue separated from the surrounding or underlying tissue.", "anything that is shed or cast off.", "Cards.a discard ."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to be or become shed or cast off, as the slough of a snake.", "to cast off a slough.Synonyms: molt", "Pathology.to separate from the sound flesh, as a slough.", "Cards.to discard a card or cards."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to dispose or get rid of; cast (often followed byoff):to slough off a bad habit.", "to shed as or like a slough.", "Cards.to discard (cards)."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["to treat as slight or trivial:to slough over a friend's mistake."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a swamp or swamplike region.", "Alsoslew,slue.Northern U.S. and Canada.a usually shallow and slow-moving marshy or reedy body of water, such as one that provides drainage; wetland.", "a hole full of mud or wet soil, such as one in a road.", "a condition of degradation, despair, or helplessness:Exercise was one thing that helped to lift me out of the slough of depression."]}, {"Bold_text": "Noun", "List Items": null}, {"Bold_text": "Verb", "List Items": null}]