[Word Powers] Today's Words

Lucre (loo-ker) (noun): Monetary gain; profit; riches; money; - often in a bad sense.

 He made his lucre by selling food to the penniless.

 Fealty (fee-uhl-tee) (noun):

    1.    Fidelity; faithfulness.

    2.    The obligation or the engagement to be faithful to a lord, usually sworn to by a servant or a slave.

Out of fealty to his boss, who had hired him after no other employer would, John stayed on with the struggling company.