Advanced 📚 Vocabulary · #1269 of 1319

avocation (n.)

a hobby

Examples

  • Music is his avocation.

Key rules

  • An avocation is a hobby or secondary activity
  • Music is his avocation
  • Avocation is countable
💡 Tip: Leisure // Formal writing // Interests
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