[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Botany.the soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants.", "the white, spongy part of a citrus fruit between the rind and the thin, transparent skin of individual segments.", "Zoology.the soft inner part of a feather, a hair, etc.", "the important or essential part; essence ; core ; heart :the pith of the matter.", "significant weight; substance ; solidity :an argument without pith.", "Archaic.spinal cord or bone marrow.", "Archaic.strength, force, or vigor; mettle:men of pith."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to remove the pith from (plants).", "to destroy the spinal cord or brain of.", "to slaughter, as cattle, by severing the spinal cord."]}, {"Bold_text": "Noun", "List Items": null}, {"Bold_text": "Verb", "List Items": null}]