using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;

public class Program

{

    public static void Main()

    {

        string jsontext = @"

            [

              {

                ""textProns"": [],

                ""sourceDictionary"": ""wiktionary"",

                ""exampleUses"": [],

                ""relatedWords"": [],

                ""labels"": [

                  {

                    ""type"": ""usage"",

                    ""text"": ""nautical""

                  }

                ],

                ""citations"": [],

                ""word"": ""cat"",

                ""attributionUrl"": ""http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"",

                ""attributionText"": ""from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License"",

                ""partOfSpeech"": ""verb"",

                ""text"": ""To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead."",

                ""score"": 0.0

              },

              {

                ""textProns"": [],

                ""sourceDictionary"": ""wiktionary"",

                ""exampleUses"": [],

                ""relatedWords"": [],

                ""labels"": [

                  {

                    ""type"": ""usage"",

                    ""text"": ""nautical""

                  }

                ],

                ""citations"": [],

                ""word"": ""cat"",

                ""attributionUrl"": ""http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"",

                ""attributionText"": ""from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License"",

                ""partOfSpeech"": ""verb"",

                ""text"": ""To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails."",

                ""score"": 0.0

              },

              {

                ""textProns"": [],

                ""sourceDictionary"": ""wiktionary"",

                ""exampleUses"": [],

                ""relatedWords"": [],

                ""labels"": [

                  {

                    ""type"": ""register"",

                    ""text"": ""slang""

                  }

                ],

                ""citations"": [],

                ""word"": ""cat"",

                ""attributionUrl"": ""http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"",

                ""attributionText"": ""from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License"",

                ""partOfSpeech"": ""verb"",

                ""text"": ""To vomit something."",

                ""score"": 0.0

              },

              {

                ""textProns"": [],

                ""sourceDictionary"": ""wiktionary"",

                ""exampleUses"": [],

                ""relatedWords"": [],

                ""labels"": [

                  {

                    ""type"": ""grammar"",

                    ""text"": ""transitive""

                  },

                  {

                    ""type"": ""field"",

                    ""text"": ""computing""

                  }

                ],

                ""citations"": [],

                ""word"": ""cat"",

                ""attributionUrl"": ""http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"",

                ""attributionText"": ""from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License"",

                ""partOfSpeech"": ""verb"",

                ""text"": ""To apply the cat command to (one or more files)."",

                ""score"": 0.0

              },

              {

                ""textProns"": [],

                ""sourceDictionary"": ""wiktionary"",

                ""exampleUses"": [],

                ""relatedWords"": [],

                ""labels"": [],

                ""citations"": [],

                ""word"": ""cat"",

                ""attributionUrl"": ""http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"",

                ""attributionText"": ""from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License"",

                ""partOfSpeech"": ""verb"",

                ""text"": ""To dump large amounts of data on (an unprepared target) usually with no intention of browsing it carefully."",

                ""score"": 0.0

              }

            ]";

​

        var worddata = (List<object>)JsonHelper.Deserialize(jsontext);

        var dict = (Dictionary<string, object>)worddata[0];

        var text = (string)dict["text"];

        Console.WriteLine(text);

    }

}

​

public static class JsonHelper

{

    public static object Deserialize(string json)

    {

        return ToObject(JToken.Parse(json));

    }

​

    private static object ToObject(JToken token)

    {

        switch (token.Type)

        {

            case JTokenType.Object:

                return token.Children<JProperty>()

                            .ToDictionary(prop => prop.Name,

                                          prop => ToObject(prop.Value));

​

            case JTokenType.Array:

                return token.Select(ToObject).ToList();

​

            default:

                return ((JValue)token).Value;

        }

    }

}