habitable | adj. | Fit to be dwelt in. |
habitant | n. | Dweller. |
habitual | adj. | According to usual practice. |
habitude | n. | Customary relation or association. |
hackney | v. | To make stale or trite by repetition. |
haggard | adj. | Worn and gaunt in appearance. |
halcyon | adj. | Calm. |
hale | adj. | Of sound and vigorous health. |
handwriting | n. | Penmanship. |
hanger-on | n. | A parasite. |
happy-go-lucky | adj. | Improvident. |
harangue | n. | A tirade. |
harass | v. | To trouble with importunities, cares, or annoyances. |
harbinger | n. | One who or that which foreruns and announces the coming of any person or thing. |
hard-hearted | adj. | Lacking pity or sympathy. |
hardihood | n. | Foolish daring. |
harmonious | adj. | Concordant in sound. |
havoc | n. | Devastation. |
hawthorn | n. | A thorny shrub much used in England for hedges. |
hazard | n. | Risk. |
head | first | adv. Precipitately, as in diving. |
head | foremost | adv. Precipitately, as in diving. |
heartrending | adj. | Very depressing. |
heathenish | adj. | Irreligious. |
heedless | adj. | Thoughtless. |
heifer | n. | A young cow. |
heinous | adj. | Odiously sinful. |
hemorrhage | n. | Discharge of blood from a ruptured or wounded blood-vessel. |
hemorrhoids | n. | pl. Tumors composed of enlarged and thickened blood-vessels, at the lower end of the rectum. |
henchman | n. | A servile assistant and subordinate. |
henpeck | v. | To worry or harass by ill temper and petty annoyances. |
heptagon | n. | A figure having seven sides and seven angles. |
heptarchy | n. | A group of seven governments. |
herbaceous | adj. | Having the character of a herb. |
herbarium | n. | A collection of dried plants scientifically arranged for study. |
herbivorous | adj. | Feeding on herbs or other vegetable matter, as animals. |
hereditary | adj. | Passing naturally from parent to child. |
heredity | n. | Transmission of physical or mental qualities, diseases, etc., from parent to offspring. |
heresy | n. | An opinion or doctrine subversive of settled beliefs or accepted principles. |
heretic | n. | One who holds opinions contrary to the recognized standards or tenets of any philosophy. |
heritage | n. | Birthright. |
hernia | n. | Protrusion of any internal organ in whole or in part from its normal position. |
hesitancy | n. | A pausing to consider. |
hesitant | adj. | Vacillating. |
hesitation | n. | Vacillation. |
heterodox | adj. | At variance with any commonly accepted doctrine or opinion. |
heterogeneity | n. | Unlikeness of constituent parts. |
heterogeneous | adj. | Consisting of dissimilar elements or ingredients of different kinds. |
heteromorphic | adj. | Deviating from the normal form or standard type. |
hexangular | adj. | Having six angles. |
hexapod | adj. | Having six feet. |
hexagon | n. | A figure with six angles. |
hiatus | n. | A break or vacancy where something necessary to supply the connection is wanting. |
hibernal | adj. | Pertaining to winter. |
Hibernian | adj. | Pertaining to Ireland, or its people. |
hideous | adj. | Appalling. |
hilarious | adj. | Boisterously merry. |
hillock | n. | A small hill or mound. |
hinder | v. | To obstruct. |
hindmost | adj. | Farthest from the front. |
hindrance | n. | An obstacle. |
hirsute | adj. | Having a hairy covering. |
hoard | v. | To gather and store away for the sake of accumulation. |
hoarse | adj. | Having the voice harsh or rough, as from a cold or fatigue. |
homage | n. | Reverential regard or worship. |
homogeneity | n. | Congruity of the members or elements or parts. |
homogeneous | adj. | Made up of similar parts or elements. |
homologous | adj. | Identical in nature, make-up, or relation. |
homonym | n. | A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another. |
homophone | n. | A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another. |
honorarium | n. | A token fee or payment to a professional man for services. |
hoodwink | v. | To deceive. |
horde | n. | A gathered multitude of human beings. |
hosiery | n. | A stocking. |
hospitable | adj. | Disposed to treat strangers or guests with generous kindness. |
hospitality | n. | The practice of receiving and entertaining strangers and guests with kindness. |
hostility | n. | Enmity. |
huckster | n. | One who retails small wares. |
humane | adj. | Compassionate. |
humanitarian | n. | A philanthropist. |
humanize | v. | To make gentle or refined. |
humbug | n. | Anything intended or calculated to deceive or mislead. |
humiliate | v. | To put to shame. |
hussar | n. | A light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine. |
hustle | v. | To move with haste and promptness. |
hybrid | adj. | Cross-bred. |
hydra | n. | The seven- or nine-headed water-serpent slain by Hercules. |
hydraulic | adj. | Involving the moving of water, of the force exerted by water in motion. |
hydrodynamics | n. | The branch of mechanics that treats of the dynamics of fluids. |
hydroelectric | adj. | Pertaining to electricity developed water or steam. |
hydromechanics | n. | The mechanics of fluids. |
hydrometer | n. | An instrument for determining the density of solids and liquids by flotation. |
hydrostatics | n. | The branch of science that treats of the pressure and equilibrium of fluids. |
hydrous | adj. | Watery. |
hygiene | n. | The branch of medical science that relates to improving health. |
hypercritical | adj. | Faultfinding. |
hypnosis | n. | An artificial trance-sleep. |
hypnotic | adj. | Tending to produce sleep. |
hypnotism | n. | An artificially induced somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestion. |
hypnotize | v. | To produce a somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestions. |
hypocrisy | n. | Extreme insincerity. |
hypocrite | n. | One who makes false professions of his views or beliefs. |
hypodermic | adj. | Pertaining to the area under the skin. |
hypotenuse | n. | The side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle. |
hypothesis | n. | A proposition taken for granted as a premise from which to reach a conclusion. |
hysteria | n. | A nervous affection occurring typically in paroxysms of laughing and crying. |
Saturday, 8 May 2010
Vocabulary builder H
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