Synonym: hobby, sideline. Similar words: invocation, equivocation, location, evocative, ratification, gratification, advocate, vacation. Meaning: [‚ævəʊ'keɪʃn] 
n. an auxiliary activity.
n. an auxiliary activity. 
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1. His vocation coincides with his avocation.
2. Make authorship your avocation, not your vocation.
3. His primary avocation was palaeontology, an interest he had lovingly nurtured since childhood.
4. Originally, collecting wildlife art was more of an avocation for us.
5. Learning ballet is just an avocation with me.
6. Teaching is my vocation and writing is my avocation.
7. Learning foreign languages is just avocation with me.
8. Learning foreign languages is just an avocation with me.
9. Bookkeeping is Mr. Jones'vocation[sentencedict.com], and photography is his avocation.
10. My uncle, an accountant, composes music as an avocation.
11. At present reading funnies is his favorite avocation.
12. Writing poems is an avocation with me.
13. Dance, then, is a avocation for you.
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14. He was a printer by trade and naturalist by avocation.
15. The older philosopher offers the young Nietzsche a lifeline between his scholarly avocation and the world outside.
16. And so the staff is a captive audience for their manager's jazz-band gigs, elegies over his approach shot to the 17th green, or any other avocation mistaken as part of the vocation.
17. He was going to talk about writing as an avocation.
18. He is a doctor by profession and a novelist by avocation.
19. After the course is cogitative, decide development is versed in avocation machines a village.
20. The Who, What, How, and Why Book of the Skydiver?s Sport, Avocation, and Lifestyle.
21. Although a physician by vocation, he is a botanist by avocation.
22. His cultural outlook lies in his objection to the scholastic aristocratic culture favored by Confucianists, his avocation of plain and simple culture of commonalty.
23. He abandoned his regular occupation and concentrated on his avocation.
More similar words: invocation, equivocation, location, evocative, ratification, gratification, advocate, vacation, education, equivocate, dedication, fornication, indication, educational, medication, implication, deprecation, defalcation, vindication, edification, publication, altercation, application, communication, intoxication, purification, confiscation, justification, clarification, specification.