[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Music.a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats.", "something, as a rhythm or a passage of music, that is syncopated . syncopated .", "Also called counterpoint ,Prosody.the use of rhetorical stress at variance with the metrical stress of a line of verse, as the stress onandandofin Come praise Colonus' horses and come praise/The wine-dark of the wood's intricacies.", "Grammar. syncope ."]}]