[{"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to swoop down suddenly and grasp, as a bird does in seizing its prey.", "to spring, dash, or come suddenly:Unexpectedly she pounced on the right answer."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to seize (prey) suddenly:The bird quickly pounced its prey."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the claw or talon of a bird of prey.", "a sudden swoop, as on an object of prey.Synonyms: spring , lunge , leap"]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to emboss (metal) by hammering on an instrument applied on the reverse side."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a fine powder, as of cuttlebone, formerly used to prevent ink from spreading in writing, or to prepare parchment for writing.", "a fine powder, often of charcoal, used in transferring a design through a perforated pattern.", "Also calledpounce? bag?,.a small bag filled with pounce and struck against a perforated design."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to sprinkle, smooth, or prepare with pounce.", "to trace (a design) with pounce.", "to finish the surface of (hats) by rubbing with sandpaper or the like."]}]