[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to make happily excited or full of eager anticipation:Your stories about Edinburgh have psyched me more than ever for my trip there next year!", "to prepare mentally and emotionally so as to be in the right frame of mind to do one's best (often followed byup):He sat with his eyes closed in the aircraft, psyching himself for his first parachute jump.", "to intimidate, make nervous, mislead, etc., in order to gain an advantage:A good chess player knows how to psych the opponent."]}, {"Bold_text": "interjection", "List Items": ["Sometimes .(used after deliberately misleading someone, to let them know they’ve been fooled):I’ve decided to put the house up for sale, and the agent is coming by in an hour . . . Psych!"]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["psych-out .", "to prepare mentally and emotionally for a challenge:I have to psych myself up for the annual family reunion.to create excitement and eager anticipation in:Beach parties, road trips, stargazing, barbecues—here are 10 tunes to psych you up for summer!", "to prepare mentally and emotionally for a challenge:I have to psych myself up for the annual family reunion.", "to create excitement and eager anticipation in:Beach parties, road trips, stargazing, barbecues—here are 10 tunes to psych you up for summer!"]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["psychology, especially as a course or field of study:She took two semesters of psych in college."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["psychedelic music(def) psychedelic music(def)."]}, {"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["psychedelic(def) psychedelic(def):stunning psych colors and patterns."]}, {"Bold_text": null, "List Items": ["variant of psycho- some vowels:psychasthenia."]}, {"Bold_text": "abbreviation for", "List Items": ["psychological.", "psychologist.", "psychology."]}]