Avocation is valid Scrabble Word

Is avocation a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is avocation valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for AVOCATION in dictionary:

NOUN:

a minor occupation undertaken as a diversion
a hobby or minor occupation
A calling away; a diversion.
That which calls one away from one\'s regular employment or vocation.
Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one\'s time; usual employment; vocation.
an auxiliary activity
occupation

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

diversion, distraction

Words related to AVOCATION

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Words that contain AVOCATION

avocations15 avocational16 avocationally21

How to use AVOCATION in a sentence

As scouts and guides were in great demand, I concluded once more to take up my old avocation of scouting and guiding for the army.
After the death of her mistress, Isopel carried on the same avocation.
So far John Gray, civil engineer in the service of the Government, had been lost in his avocation.
The pleasures of the table and the cares of the kitchen were the most serious avocation of the aristocracy in the days of the greatest corruption.
Many intelligent Negroes who followed other occupations had teaching for their avocation.
Others, intoxicated by their passions, live in a perpetual avocation of thought.
The writing of these memoirs served me as a source of avocation for several years.
He remained some time in the mountains near Rome, and with his associates laid in a store of whatever was necessary for their new avocation.
My avocation in life was such as to induce slenderness.
He is a mural painter by avocation and capable, on occasion, of a monumental formality.

His name was Marvel, and his avocation, which was as repulsive as his looks, was that of public executioner.
Teaching was an avocation with her and not a bread and butter necessity.
The profession or avocation is open to all alike who will prepare themselves with the requisite qualifications or give the requisite security for preserving public order.
Besides the fidelity with which I clung to my avocation as an educator also influenced my action in this matter.
It must not be implied that one should give up avocation and attainment to livelihood.
Many a one has already been driven to commit a crime by his despair at having chosen an unsuitable avocation.
To teach mothers the need for boiled water as a necessary drink for baby and older children is alone a worthy avocation.
The avocation should be far removed from the nature of the regular work.
Often the avocation can serve a productive purpose.
I could hardly wait until winter was over to begin my new avocation.
Vocation and avocation have about equally divided my time and energy during my residence in San Francisco.
One must, of course, have a distinct bent for the avocation, and if he is to succeed he must possess certain salient attributes.
He is to set himself the task of defending her from his injury of her, and he is charmed with the avocation.
Although he earned his living for several years by carving wood, he never lost his desire to write, and practised, at every spare moment, his favorite avocation.
No other avocation could arrest my time, which is now completely occupied in scenes of amusement.
An avocation is something that calls one away from it.
BETTER INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS He was the head of a large real estate firm, And his avocation was seeking the good in a Better Industrial Relations Society.
He has been devoted to photography in which avocation he has been most successful.
Doubtless, though, since he has pursued for recent years so noble an avocation, it were more grateful if he thanked me for caring for the deserted girl.
Thus Americans were enabled to land as citizens, and pursue their avocation as religious teachers.
Many girls mistake what may be a pleasant and satisfying avocation for a life work.
Every one possesses proclivities for some one avocation, and should be educated for its pursuit.

Similar words containing AVOCA without suffix tion

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