[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place.", "Chiefly Biblical.a goat loose in the wilderness on Yom Kippur Yom Kippurafter the high priest symbolically laid the sins of the people on its head. Leviticus 16:8,10,26."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to make a scapegoat of:Strike leaders tried to scapegoat foreign competitors."]}]