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Exertion

//ɪɡˈzɝʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An expenditure of physical or mental effort. countable, uncountable

    "Again she felt a return of that utter despondency which had fallen upon her after Guido's death: but then she could indulge in it unmolested, and that was something of relief: now she was forced into exertion, that sort of exertion of all the most tiresome, because the least interesting..."

  2. 2
    use of physical or mental energy; hard work wordnet

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