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How to spell exertion

hear itex·er·tion/ɪɡ'zɜrʃən/nounHidden vowels

What it means: Effort or energy used to do something.

In a sentence: Running around the playground requires a lot of exertion!

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as exersion or exertian.

Same family: exert, exerted, exerting, effort, strain. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Exertion comes from the verb 'exert', which traces back to Latin 'exserere', meaning 'to thrust out' or 'to put forth'. Over time, the word shifted from the idea of pushing something out to the modern sense of putting out energy or effort.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa) · -tion, -sion or -cian?

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