[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a speech read or delivered before an audience or class, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject:a lecture on Picasso's paintings.Synonyms: discourse , paper , talk , address", "a speech of warning or reproof as to conduct; a long, tedious reprimand."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to give a lecture or series of lectures:He spent the year lecturing to various student groups."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to deliver a lecture to or before; instruct by lectures.Synonyms: address , teach", "to rebuke or reprimand at some length:He lectured the child regularly but with little effect.Synonyms: hector , admonish"]}]