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• 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