KEY: Avocation.
SYN: Profession, calling, lot, employment, vocation, occupation, business, pursuit, line.
ANT: Holiday, leisure, idleness, self-abandonment, misemployment.
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KEY: Avoid.
SYN: Quit, shun, abandon, desert, forsake, relinquish, fly, eschew, elude, dodge, escape, shirk.
ANT: Seek, court, approach, accost, address, affect.
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KEY: Avouch.
SYN: Aver, protest, declare, propound, asseverate, profess.