Pressure
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area. A pressing; a force applied to a surface. Mental strain caused by one's own or others' expectations on one's own performance
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.
Example sentence: You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.
Blackmail
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage.Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to white rent, which paid in silver.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.