[{"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["near or approaching a certain state, condition, goal, or standard.", "nearly exact; not perfectly accurate or correct:The approximate time was 10 o'clock.", "near; close together.", "very similar; nearly identical."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to come near to; approach closely to:to approximate an ideal.", "to estimate:We approximated the distance at three miles.", "to simulate; imitate closely:The motions of the stars can be approximated in a planetarium.", "to bring near."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to come near in position, character, amount, etc."]}]