[{"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to present reasons for or against a thing:He argued in favor of capital punishment.", "to contend in oral disagreement; dispute :The senator argued with the president about the new tax bill."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to state the reasons for or against:The lawyers argued the case.", "to maintain in reasoning:to argue that the news report must be wrong.", "to persuade, drive, etc., by reasoning:to argue someone out of a plan.", "to show; prove ; imply ; indicate :His clothes argue poverty."]}]