[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a remark or comment, especially an adverse criticism:The reviewer made several strictures upon the author's .", "an abnormal contraction of any passage or duct of the body.", "Phonetics.a constriction of airflow in the vocal tract in the production of speech.", "a restriction.", "Archaic.the act of enclosing or binding tightly.", "Obsolete. strictness ."]}]