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| habitable |
adj. suitable for living in |
| habitant |
Dweller. |
| habitual |
adj. regular; usual |
| habitude |
Customary relation or association. |
| hackney |
To make stale or trite by repetition. |
| haggard |
adj. looking tired and unhappy, esp from worry, lack
of sleep, etc |
| halcyon |
adj. peaceful and happy |
| hale |
adj. hale and `hearty (esp of an old person) strong
and healthy |
| hanger-on |
n. (usu derog ) person who tries to become or appear
friendly with others, esp in the hope of personal gain |
| happy-go-lucky |
adj. accepting events cheerfully as they happen; carefree |
| harangue |
n. long, loud, serious and usu angry speech |
| harass |
v. trouble and annoy continually |
| harbinger |
n. ~ (rhet ) person or thing that announces or shows
that sb/sth is coming |
| hard-hearted |
adj. lacking in feeling or sympathy; unkind ; |
| hardihood |
the trait of being willing to undertake things that
involve risk or danger |
| harmonious |
adj. free from disagreement or ill feeling |
| havoc |
n. widespread damage; great destruction |
| hawthorn |
n. thorny shrub or tree with white, red or pink blossom
and small dark red berries |
| hazard |
n. ~ (thing that can cause) danger; risk |
| head |
n. part of the body containing the eyes, nose, mouth
and brain |
| heartrending |
causing intense sorrow or distress |
| heathenish |
adj. of or like heathens; barbarous ; |
| heedless |
not noticing; disregarding |
| heifer |
n. young cow, esp one that has not yet had a calf |
| heinous |
adj. very wicked |
| hemorrhage |
Discharge of blood from a ruptured or wounded blood-vessel. |
| hemorrhoid |
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| henchman |
n. faithful follower or political supporter who always
obeys the orders of his leader |
| henpeck |
To worry or harass by ill temper and petty annoyances. |
| heptagon |
n. geometric figure with seven sides and angles |
| heptarchy |
A group of seven governments. |
| herbaceous |
adj. of or like herbs |
| herbarium |
A collection of dried plants scientifically arranged
for study. |
| herbivorous |
adj. feeding on plants |
| hereditary |
adj. passed on from parent to child, or from one generation
to following generations |
| heredity |
n. passing on of physical or mental characteristics
from parents to children |
| heresy |
n. belief or opinion that is contrary to what is generally
accepted, esp in religion |
| heretic |
n. person who is guilty of heresy or who supports a
heresy |
| heritage |
n. things such as works of art, cultural achievements
and folklore that have been passed on from earlier generations |
| hernia |
n. rupture, esp one caused by a part of the bowel being
pushed through a weak point of the muscle wall of the
abdomen |
| hesitancy |
n. state or quality of being hesitant |
| hesitant |
adj. tending to be slow inspeaking or acting because
of uncertainty or unwillingness |
| hesitation |
n. state of hesitating |
| heterodox |
adj. not conforming with accepted standards or beliefs |
| heterogeneity |
Unlikeness of constituent parts. |
| heterogeneous |
adj. made up of different kinds; varied in composition |
| heteromorphic |
Deviating from the normal form or standard type. |
| hexagon |
n. geometric figure with six sides and angles |
| hexapod |
Having six feet. |
| hiatus |
n. gap in a series or sequence, making it incomplete;
break in continuity ; |
| hibernal |
wintry |
| Hibernian |
Pertaining to Ireland, or its people. |
| hideous |
adj. filling the mind with horror; very ugly; frightful |
| hilarious |
adj. extremelyamusing; very funny |
| hillock |
n. small hill; mound ; |
| hinder |
v. ~ sb/sth prevent the progress of sb/sth; obstruct
or delay sb/sth ; |
| hindmost |
adj. furthest behind |
| hindrance |
n. ~ thing or person that hinders |
| hirsute |
adj. (esp of a man) covered with hair; hairy; shaggy |
| hoard |
n. carefully collected and guarded store of money,
food or other treasured objects |
| hoarse |
adj. (of the voice) sounding rough and harsh |
| homage |
n. things said or done to show great respect; tribute
to a person or his qualities (used esp with the vs shown) |
| homogeneity |
n. quality of being alike |
| homogeneous |
adj. formed of parts that are all of the same type |
| homologous |
Identical in nature, make-up, or relation. |
| homonym |
n. word spelt and pronounced like another word but
with a different meaning |
| homophone |
n. word pronounced like another word but with a different
meaning or spelling , some, sum ; knew, new |
| honorarium |
n. voluntary payment made for professional services
for which a fee is not normally paid or required by law |
| hoodwink |
v. ~ sb deceive sb; trick sb |
| horde |
n. very large group (esp of people); huge crowd; throng |
| hosiery |
n. stockings, socks and knitted or woven underwear |
| hospitable |
adj. ~ (of a person) pleased to welcome and entertain
guests; giving hospitality |
| hospitality |
n. friendly and generous reception and entertainment
of guests or strangers, esp in one's own home |
| hostility |
n. ~ being hostile (to sb/sth); antagonism; enmity |
| huckster |
n. person who sells goods in the street; hawker |
| humane |
adj. having or showing sympathy, kindness and understanding |
| humanitarian |
adj. concerned with improving the lives of mankind
and reducing suffering, esp by social reform |
| humanize |
To make gentle or refined. |
| humbug |
n. dishonest behaviour or talk that is intended to
deceive people and win their support or sympathy |
| humiliate |
v. make feel ashamed or disgraced; lower the dignity
or self-respect of |
| hussar |
n. soldier of a cavalry regiment, carrying light weapons |
| hustle |
v. push roughly and hurriedly; jostle; shove |
| hybrid |
n. animal or plant that has parents of different species
or varieties |
| hydraulic |
adj. of water moving through pipes |
| hydrodynamics |
study of fluids in motion |
| hydroelectric |
adj. using water-power to produce electricity |
| hydromechanical |
[ hydromechanics: ] another name for: hydrodynamics |
| hydrometer |
n. scientificinstrument that measures the density of
liquids |
| hydrostatics |
The branch of science that treats of the pressure and
equilibrium of fluids. |
| hydrous |
Watery. |
| hygiene |
n. study and practice of cleanliness as a way of maintaining
good health and preventing disease |
| hypercritical |
adj. too critical, esp of small faults |
| hypnosis |
n. state like deep sleep in which a person's actions
may be controlled by another person |
| hypnotic |
adj. of or producing hypnosis or a similar condition |
| hypnotism |
n. production or practice of hypnosis |
| hypnotize |
To produce a somnambulistic state in which the mind
readily acts on suggestions. |
| hypocrisy |
n. practice of misrepresenting one's real character,
opinions, etc, esp by pretending to be more virtuous than
one really is; insincerity ; |
| hypocrite |
n. person who pretends to have opinions which he does
not have or to be what he is not |
| hypodermic |
adj. (of drugs, etc) injected beneath the skin |
| hypotenuse |
n. side opposite the right angle of a right-angled
triangle |
| hypothesis |
n. idea or suggestion that is based on known facts
and is used as a basis for reasoning or further investigation |
| hysteria |
n. wild uncontrollable emotion or excitement, with
eg laughter, crying or screaming |
