[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a proceeding, measure, or provision by which one prepares for something:preparations for a journey.", "any proceeding, experience, or the like considered as a mode of preparing for the future.", "an act of preparing.", "the state of being prepared.", "something prepared, manufactured, or compounded:a special preparation for sunbathers.", "a specimen, as an body, prepared for scientific examination, dissection, etc.", "Music.the preparing a dissonance, by introducing the dissonant tone as a consonant tone in the preceding chord.the tone so introduced.", "the preparing a dissonance, by introducing the dissonant tone as a consonant tone in the preceding chord.", "the tone so introduced.", "New Testament.the day before the Sabbath or a feast day.", "British.work done by students in preparation for class; homework.", "the Preparation,the introductory prayers of the Mass or other divine service."]}]