[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard:a lapse of justice.", "a slip or error, often of a trivial sort; failure:a lapse of memory.", "an interval or passage of time; elapsed period:a lapse of ten minutes before the program resumed.", "a moral fall, as from rectitude or virtue.", "a fall or decline to a lower grade, condition, or degree; descent; regression:a lapse into savagery.", "the act of falling, slipping, sliding, etc., slowly or by degrees.", "a falling into disuse.", "Insurance.discontinuance of coverage resulting from nonpayment of a premium; termination of a policy.", "Law.the termination of a right or privilege through neglect to exercise it or through failure of some contingency.", "Meteorology. lapse rate lapse rate.", "Archaic.a gentle, downward flow, as of water."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to fall or deviate from a previous standard; fail to maintain a normative level:Toward the end of the book the author lapsed into bad prose.", "to come to an end; stop:We let our subscription to that magazine lapse.", "to fall, slip, or sink; subside:to lapse into silence.", "to fall into disuse:The custom lapsed after a period of time.", "to deviate or abandon principles, beliefs, etc.:to lapse into heresy.", "to fall spiritually, as an apostate:to lapse from grace.", "to pass away, as time; elapse.", "Law.to become void, as a legacy to someone who dies before the testator.", "to cease being in force; terminate:Your insurance policy will lapse after 30 days."]}]