[{"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to have or take an inclined or oblique direction or angle considered with reference to a vertical or horizontal plane; slant.", "to move at an inclination or obliquely:They sloped gradually westward."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to direct at a slant or inclination; incline from the horizontal or vertical:The sun sloped its beams.", "to form with a slope or slant:to slope an embankment."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["ground that has a natural incline, as the side of a hill.", "inclination or slant, especially downward or upward.", "deviation from the horizontal or vertical.", "an inclined surface.", "Usuallyslopes.hills, especially foothills or bluffs:the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro.", "Mathematics.the tangent of the angle between a given straight line and thex-axis of a system of Cartesian coordinates.the derivative of the function whose graph is a given curve evaluated at a designated point.", "the tangent of the angle between a given straight line and thex-axis of a system of Cartesian coordinates.", "the derivative of the function whose graph is a given curve evaluated at a designated point.", "Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive.a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of East Asian origin, especially a Vietnamese or other South Asian."]}]