blackmail
B1CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
The offence of making an unwarranted demand with menaces, typically to obtain money or advantage.
He committed blackmail by threatening to publish the photographs unless he was paid.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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