[{"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["Cooking.(of an egg) boiled boil the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.", "Informal.tough; unsentimental:a hard-boiled vice-squad detective.", "marked by a direct, clear-headed approach; realistic:a hard-boiled appraisal of the foreign situation.", "(of detective fiction) written in a laconic, dispassionate, often ironic style for a realistic, unsentimental effect."]}]