[{"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["firm, strict, or uncompromising:stern discipline.Synonyms: unsympathetic , unfeeling , cruel , unrelenting , adamant Antonyms: lenient", "hard, harsh, or severe:a stern reprimand.Synonyms: unsympathetic , unfeeling , cruel , unrelenting , adamant", "rigorous or austere; of an unpleasantly serious character:stern times.", "grim or forbidding in aspect:a stern face."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the after or rear part of a vessel (often opposed toboworstem):The ship's stern was a glory of brightly painted carved figures of knights and mythical beasts.", "the back or rear of anything.", "Stern,Astronomy.the constellation Puppis.", "Fox Hunting.the tail of a hound."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with or without object)", "List Items": ["to be the person paddling, steering, working, etc., at the rear of (a vessel):When you're bird-watching, it's much better to be paddling up front than sterning the canoe.", "to propel or steer (a vessel) with the after or rear part leading:We pulled up to the dock 15 minutes later and managed to stern in before dark."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Isaac,1920–2001,U.S. violinist, born in Russia.", "Otto,1888–1969,U.S. physicist, born in Germany: Nobel Prize 1943."]}, {"Bold_text": null, "List Items": ["variant of sterno- sterno-before a vowel:sternite."]}]