SAT vocabulary
Exhort
to strongly encourage or urge (someone) to do something
Example
"The coach exhorted his players to keep fighting until the final whistle."
Etymology
From Latin 'exhortari' meaning 'to encourage greatly,' from 'ex-' (out, thoroughly) + 'hortari' (to encourage, incite).
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