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Because they are in a thesaurus doesn't mean they are interchangable; just that they share common traits.
"A bribe" is a (hopefully large) donation of money or goods to influence a decision; "Blackmail" is intimidation to exhort money, services, or silence from somebody - and generally involves a threat.

I am amenable to bribes (or I would be if I had ever been offered anything larger than a night on the beer), but I do not respond well to threats! Laugh | :laugh:
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Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

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