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   Vo·ca·tion

   /vōˈkāSH(ə)n/

   

   noun

   • 1. a strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or occupation: "not all of us have a vocation to be nurses or doctors"
   • ▪ a person's employment or main occupation, especially regarded as particularly worthy and requiring great dedication: "her vocation as a poet"
   • ▪ a trade or profession.

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin vocatio(n-), from vocare ‘to call’.

   Scrabble Points: 13

   • V

     4

   • O

     1

   • C

     3

   • A

     1

   • T

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   • I

     1

   • O

     1

   • N

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