LOANER WORD OF THE DAY

The investment banker might know today’s word and anyone who has borrowed money has paid it. Usury is the interest that you pay to the lender when you borrow money. Related words are lending, loan, creditor, and debt. In Biblical times, they did not say that the borrower paid usury, but that the lender exacted usury, so it is no surprise that a related word is “extortioner.”