[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["any payment extorted by intimidation, as by threats of injurious revelations or accusations.", "the extortion of such payment:He confessed rather than suffer the dishonor of blackmail.", "a tribute formerly exacted in the north of England and in Scotland by freebooting chiefs for protection from pillage."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to extort money from (a person) by the use of threats.", "to force or coerce into a particular action, statement, etc.:The strikers claimed they were blackmailed into signing the new contract."]}]