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VOCATION AND AVOCATION

Common Stumbling Blocks - Peculiar Constructions - Misused Forms. Don't mistake these two words so nearly alike. Vocation is the employment, business or profession one follows for a living; avocation is some pursuit or occupation which diverts the person from such employment, business or profession. Thus "His vocation was the law, his avocation, farming." Next: WASWERE Previous: THROUGHTHROUGHOUT Report Privacy SHARE ADD TO EBOOK

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