What does advocate mean?
Word: Advocate
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Advocate means a person who publicly supports a cause or speaks for someone; in some countries, such as Scotland, a lawyer who argues cases in court.
Synonyms: supporter, champion, defender, lawyer
Antonyms: critic
How do you spell advocate?
Syllables: ad - vo - cate
Tricky part: The middle vowel is o, as in vocal, not a.
Watch out for: advacate, advokate, advocait
Memory tip: An advocate gives a cause a voice: the voc of vocal and vocabulary sits in its middle.
Advocate in a sentence
Example 1: Ms Menon is an advocate at the Madras High Court.
Example 2: My uncle is a strong advocate of cycling to work.
Example 3: The village head became an advocate for a new school building.
Fun Fact
In Scotland, lawyers who argue cases in the highest courts are called advocates and belong to the Faculty of Advocates, founded in 1532.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word:
advocate
a) follower
b) opponent
c) adviser
d) speaker
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b) opponent. An advocate is for a cause; an opponent is against it.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
My aunt worked as an advocat in the district court before she became a judge.
a) district
b) advocat
c) judge
d) court
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b) advocat. The word ends in ate, as in educate.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
cdovaate
a) advocate
b) educator
c) advocacy
d) avocado
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a) advocate. Advocacy and avocado end in y and o, and educator needs a u and an r.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) campain
b) volunteer
c) advocate
d) petition
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a) campain. Campaign has a silent g before the n; volunteer, advocate and petition are all spelt correctly.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. An advocate of clean energy is someone who ____.
a) has never heard of it
b) makes money by selling it
c) argues strongly against it
d) speaks up in favour of it
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d) speaks up in favour of it
2. In the sentence 'She advocates early bedtimes', advocates means ____.
a) postpones
b) questions
c) recommends
d) prohibits
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c) recommends
