Exerting rhymes with:
alerting, asserting, averting, converting, disconcerting, diverting, flirting, herting, hurting, inserting, perverting, reasserting, reverting, shirting, skirting, spurting, squirting, subverting
Exerting sounds like:
escorting, exaggerating, exaggerations, excoriating, exertions, exhortations, exhorting