compel
kum-PELverbMeaning to force or require someone to do something
Memory hook com-PEL: the BELL pushes you up. At six o’clock the alarm bell rings and rings, and Dev has no choice but to drag himself out of bed: the bell compels him.
The heavy rain compelled us to cancel the game.
In context Though she wanted to keep reading, hunger finally compelled Maya to close her book and go downstairs for dinner.
Similar force, require, oblige, coerce
Opposite excuse, exempt
From Latin compellere, “to drive together”: com- (together) + pellere (to drive).