[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a place where a sea, river, or other body of water is shallow:The clams and mussels gathered from these shoals are the best you’ll ever find.Synonyms: ford , shallow(s) shallow(s)", "a sandbank or sandbar in the bed of a body of water, especially one that is exposed above the surface of the water at low tide.Synonyms: reef"]}, {"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["of little depth, as water; shallow:The first thing these newcomers do is buy a boat and promptly get stuck in the shoal waters, which they know nothing about."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to become shallow or more shallow:The river significantly shoals between the old stone bridge and the bend at Tuttle’s Crossing."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to cause to become shallow:Shoaling the approach has effectively kept the larger vessels out of our small harbor.", "Nautical.to sail so as to lessen the depth of (the water under a vessel)."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["any large number of persons or things.", "a school of fish:a shoal of herring;a shoal of mackerel."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to collect in a shoal; throng ."]}]