[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a person who dedicates their life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.", "a person who leads an austerely simple life, especially one who abstains from the normal pleasures of life or shuns material satisfaction.", "(in the early Christian church) a monk; hermit .Synonyms: cenobite , recluse , anchorite"]}, {"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["relating to asceticism ,the doctrine that one can reach a high spiritual state through the practice of extreme self-denial or self-mortification.", "rigorously abstinent; austere :an ascetic existence.Synonyms: plain , frugal , strict Antonyms: self-indulgent", "exceedingly strict or severe in religious exercises or self-mortification.Synonyms: fanatic"]}]