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• confession: She had tacitly said herself that under the bitter pains of the rack they would be able to extort a false confession from her.

• money: Oxfam Hong Kong spokeswoman Christy Ko said the emails were an attempt to extort money from people at a time of tragedy.

• bribe: Back in November I wrote about the problem of officials who extort bribes.

• sum: They extort vast sums of money both before and after the hazardous journeys they arrange.

• cash: The virus is the latest example of so-called " ransomware " that tries to extort cash from victims.

• payment: Some are for security checks, others to extort small payments of money.

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• often: In the meantime the Chief Priests and their Sadducaean supporters serviced the temple financed by supposedly voluntary tithes that were often extorted.