extortion of money (as by blackmail) | two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees |
a very thorough search of a person or a place | a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) |
initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state | stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition |
| insincere talk about religion or morals |
| a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force |