6 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
verb spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
verb force or impel in an indicated direction
originFrom Middle English exorten, from Old French exhorter, from Latin exhortārī (“to encourage”), from ex- (“out of, from”) + hortārī (“to incite, spur”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0