Intial H

  • habit: established disposition of the mind or character; distinctive dress, especially of a religious order haggard: wasted away; showing wearing effects of overwork or suffering
  • haggle: argue about prices; bargain, as over the price of something
  • hail: call for; salute; greet; praise vociferously
  • hairy: bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair
  • hallmark: sign; feature; mark indicating quality or excellence
  • halt: stop; stand in doubt; hesitate
  • ham: meat cut from the thigh of a hog, usually smoked
  • hamburger: a fried bread of minced beef served on a bun
  • hamper: put at disadvantage; prevent progress or free movement of
  • handbook: concise reference book providing specific information
  • handful: a small number
  • handicap: disadvantage; physical disability; cripple; hinder; impede
  • handle: touch; feel with the hand; use or hold with the hand; manage in using; deal with
  • handsome: skillful; handy; agreeable to the eye or to correct taste; having a pleasing appearance; attractive
  • handy: convenient; close
  • hang: suspend; fasten to some elevated point without support from below; hold for support
  • hanger: one who hangs, or causes to be hanged; loop or strap by which something is hung haphazard: not thorough, constant or consistent; by chance
  • harbor: provide a refuge for; hide; give shelter to
  • harden: become hard or harder
  • hardware: mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical components making up a computer system
  • hardy: in robust and good health; able to survive under unfavorable conditions
  • harmful: damaging; noxious; detrimental; dangerous
  • harmless: unlikely to harm or disturb anyone
  • harmonious: concordant; accordant; suitable and fitting
  • harmony: compatibility in opinion and action; an agreeable sound property
  • harness: stable gear consisting of an arrangement to an animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart
  • harsh: rough; coarse; severe; unpleasantly stern
  • harvest: gather; yield from plants in a single growing season
  • haste: hurry; rapidity of action or motion
  • hasten: accelerate; quicken
  • hasty: easily angered; irritable; made too quickly to be accurate or wise
  • hatch: breed; emerge from the egg
  • haughty: high; lofty; bold; arrogant; overbearing
  • haul: draw slowly or heavily; pull or drag forcibly; shift direction
  • haunt: be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place; bother; disturb
  • hawk: bird of prey typically having short rounded wings and a long tail
  • hay: grass or other plants, cut and dried for fodder
  • hazard: danger; risk
  • heading: course or direction in which a ship or aircraft is moving; title, subtitle, or topic that stands at the top or beginning
  • headlong: uncontrollably forceful or fast; done with head leading; headfirst
  • heal: cure; make or get healthy again
  • heap: crowd or throng; a great number of persons; pile or mass
  • hearing: opportunity to be heard; capacity to hear; judicial investigation of a suit at law
  • heave: cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; lift; raise; hoist; throw
  • heaven: expanse of space surrounding the earth; sky; place where the sun, moon, and stars appear
  • hedge: thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes
  • hedgehog: small European insectivore, and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines
  • heed: pay attention to; listen to and consider
  • heel: back part of the human foot; lower end of a ship’s mast
  • heighten: enhance; hoist; raise or increase the quantity or degree of; intensify
  • heir: person who inherits some title or office
  • heiress: woman who is an heir, especially to great wealth
  • helicopter: aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades
  • hell: place of the dead, or of souls after death where sinners suffer eternal punishment; any place of pain and turmoil
  • helmet: defensive covering for head; hat, made of cork, felt, or metal, worn as uniform of soldiers, firemen
  • helpful: giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary
  • helpless: unable to help oneself; powerless or incompetent; powerless; weak
  • hemisphere: halves; half of a sphere bounded by a great circle
  • hence: from this place; from this time; from this reason; as an inference or deduction
  • henceforth: from this time forward; henceforward
  • herald: proclaim; announces important news; messenger
  • herb: plant lacking a permanent woody stem, some having medicinal properties
  • herd: flock; crowd; group of cattle or other domestic animals
  • hesitant: reluctant, irresolute; tending to wait, or proceed with caution or reservation
  • hesitate: pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
  • hide: prevent from being seen or discovered
  • hideous: frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; offensive to moral sensibilities; despicable
  • hijack: stop and rob a vehicle in transit; seize control of by use of force
  • hike: long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
  • hinder: put at a disadvantage; tie up; hamper; prevent the progress
  • hindrance: something that holds back or causes problems with something else; obstacle
  • hinge: a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other
  • hint: allusion; clue; brief or indirect suggestion
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  • hinterland: region; remote and undeveloped area
  • hiss: prolonged sound like that letter s, made by forcing out the breath between the tongue and teeth historian: one who is an authority on history
  • historic: having importance or significance in history; belonging to the past; historical
  • hitchhike: travel by getting free rides from passing vehicles; be carried along with something else hitherto: to this place; to a prescribed limit; up to this time; as yet; until now
  • hoarse: having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound
  • hobby: auxiliary activity; activity or interest pursued outside one’s regular occupation
  • hoe: weed, cultivate, or dig up with a tool, which has flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
  • hoist: raise; lift; elevate
  • hold: keep from departing; take and maintain control over; stop dealing with
  • hollow: sound as if echoing in a empty space; void; vain; not solid; having a space or gap or cavity
  • homely: of home; domestic; familiar; intimate; plain; unpretending; rude in appearance; unpolished
  • homesick: unhappy at being away and longing for familiar things or persons
  • hook: a piece of metal, or other hard material, bent into curve or at angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything
  • hop: move by successive leaps, as toads do; spring or jump on one foot
  • horizon: line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet; range of one’s knowledge, experience, or interest
  • horizontal: flat; level; parallel to or in a base line
  • horn: one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates
  • horrible: exciting, or tending to horror or fear; hideous
  • horror: terror; fear; intense dislike
  • hose: a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas
  • hospitable: disposed to treat guests with warmth and generosity; receptive
  • hospitality: act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward
  • host: great number; person entertaining guests
  • hostage: prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms hostile: unfriendly; showing the disposition of an enemy
  • hound: a variety of domestic dog, having large, drooping ears; side bar used to strengthen portions of gear of a vehicle
  • house: provide living quarters for; lodge; contain; harbor
  • hover: hang about; wait nearby; remain floating
  • howl: utter a loud, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do; utter a sound expressive of distress; cry aloud and mournfully
  • hug: crowd together; keep close to; tight or amorous embrace
  • hull: outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; outer skin of a kernel; husk
  • hum: low, prolonged sound; humming noise; singing with shut mouth
  • humane: marked by kindness, mercy, or compassion
  • humanitarian: philanthropic; one devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms
  • humanity: kindness; virtue; all of the inhabitants of the earth
  • humble: low or inferior in station or quality; modest
  • humid: containing a high amount of water or water vapor
  • humidity: dampness; moisture
  • humiliate: cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
  • humorous: employing or showing humor; funny; amusing
  • hunger: strong desire for something; feel the need to eat
  • hurl: throw with great force; cast; toss
  • husband: use economically; conserve; save
  • hush: make silent or quiet; keep from public knowledge; suppress mention of
  • hustle: bustle; cause to move furtively and hurriedly
  • hydrogen: a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas
  • hygiene: cleanliness; sanitation
  • hymn: song of praise or adoration, especially, a religious ode, a sacred lyric
  • hypocrisy: act or practice of a hypocrite
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  • hypothesis: assumption; theory
  • hypothetical: based on assumptions; supposed
  • hysteria: behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic; mental disorder

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