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How to spell exertion

Exertion is spelled E-X-E-R-T-I-O-N.

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

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

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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.

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