Meaning and example
a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
The passage used "advocate" to mean a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 2.433 places advocate in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 99.7% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
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an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth
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a proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations
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a list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.)
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a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business
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a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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