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Definition
1
Exhort
Spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
Examples
The prophet exhorted the people to turn away from evil.
2
Extort
Obtain through intimidation
Examples
They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss
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