[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a whirling mass of water, especially one in which a force of suction operates, as a whirlpool.", "a whirling mass of air, especially one in the form of a visible column or spiral, as a tornado. polar vortex polar vortex.", "a whirling mass of fire, flame, etc.", "a state of affairs likened to a whirlpool for violent activity, irresistible force, etc.", "something regarded as drawing into its powerful current everything that surrounds it:the vortex of war.", "(in Cartesian philosophy) a rapid rotatory movement of cosmic matter about a center, regarded as accounting for the origin or phenomena of bodies or systems of bodies in space."]}]