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barrons letter h
barrons letter h words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| habituate | accustom or familiarize; addict |
| hackles | hairs on back and neck, especially of a dog; Ex. make someone's hackles rise |
| growl | low, guttural, menacing sound (as of a dog) |
| hackneyed | commonplace; trite |
| haggard | wasted away; gaunt; Ex. haggard faces of the rescued miners |
| haggle | argue about prices (in an attempt to bargain) |
| halcyon | calm; peaceful; Ex. halcyon days |
| hale | healthy |
| hail | frozen rain drop; V: salute or greet; precipitate hail |
| hallowed | blessed; consecrated; Ex. hallowed ground; V. hallow: set apart as holy |
| hallucination | delusion; false idea; false perception of objects with a compelling sense of their reality; objects so perceived; V. hallucinate; ADJ. hallucinatory |
| halting | hesitant; faltering; not fluent; Ex. halting steps/voice; V. halt: proceed or act with uncertainty; falter; hesitate; waver; stop |
| waver | move or swing back and forth; be uncertain or unsteady in decision or movement; Ex. wavering between accepting and refusing |
| hamper | obstruct; prevent the free movement of; N: |
| hap | chance; luck |
| haphazard | random; by chance; happening in an unplanned manner; Ex. haphazard growth of the town |
| hapless | unfortunate; luckless |
| harangue | long, passionate, and vehement speech; V. |
| harass | annoy by repeated attacks |
| harbinger | forerunner (which foreshadows what is to come) |
| harbor | give protection (by giving food and shelter); provide a refuge for; hide; keep in mind (thoughts or feelings); Ex. harbor a grudge/criminal; N: place of shelter; refuge |
| habitat | natural home of a plant or animal; CF. habitation |
| hardy | (of people or animals) sturdy; robust; (of plants) able to stand inclement(stormy) weather |
| harping | tiresome dwelling on a subject; V. harp: dwell on(think or speak a lot about) tediously |
| harrowing | agonizing; distressing; traumatic; V. harrow: break up and level (soil) with a harrow; inflict great distress on; agonize; N: farming machine to break up the earth |
| harry | harass, annoy, torment (by repeated attacks); raid |
| hatch | deck opening; lid covering a deck opening; V: emerge from an egg; produce (young) from an egg |
| latch | fastening or lock consisting of a movable bar that fits into a notch; V: close with a latch |
| notch | V-shaped cut in a surface; V. |
| haughtiness | pride; arrogance; ADJ. haughty |
| haunt | (of a spirit) visit (a place); come to mind continually; visit (a place) regularly; frequent; Ex. haunted house; Ex. haunted by his last words; N: place much frequented |
| haven | place of safety; refuge; harbor; Ex. tax haven |
| havoc | widespread damage; disorder; chaos |
| hazardous | dangerous |
| hazard | venture; put in danger; risk; Ex. hazard a guess; N: possible source of danger |
| hazy | slightly obscure; misty; unclear; N. haze: light mist or smoke; confused state of mind |
| headlong | hasty; rash; headfirst; ADV. |
| headfirst | moving with the head leading; headlong |
| headstrong | willful; stubborn; unyielding; determined to have one's own way; CF. no 'excessive' |
| heckler | person who verbally harasses others; V. heckle: verbally harass as with gibes (by interrupting a speaker or speech) |
| hedonist | one who believes that pleasure is the sole aim in life; CF. hedonism: practice of living one's life purely for pleasure |
| heedless | not noticing; disregarding |
| heed | pay attention to; N: close attention |
| hegemony | dominance especially of one nation over others |
| heinous | atrocious; wicked; hatefully bad; Ex. heinous crime |
| gross | total; fragrant; clearly wrong; (of people's behavior) coarse; corpulent; Ex. gross insolence/behavior; V: earn as a total amount; N: 12 dozens |
| helm | steering wheel of a ship; position of control |
| herbivorous | grain-eating; CF. herbivore |
| heresy | opinion contrary to popular belief; opinion contrary to accepted religion; ADJ. heretical; CF. heretic |
| hermetic | sealed by fusion so as to be airtight; airtight |
| hermetic | concerning alchemy or magic; obscure and mysterious; occult |
| sterile | incapable of producing young; free from microorganism; V. sterilize |
| hermitage | home of a hermit |
| herpetologist | one who studies reptiles; CF. herpetology: branch of zoology that deals with reptiles and amphibians |
| heterodox | (of beliefs) against accepted opinion; unorthodox; unconventional |
| heterogeneous | dissimilar; mixed; not homogeneous; consisting of dissimilar elements or plants |
| hew | cut to pieces with ax or sword; chop; N. |
| heyday | time of greatest success or power; prime |
| prime | period of ideal or peak condition; earliest or beginning stage; Ex. in the prime of life; Ex. prime of the year(spring); ADJ: first in importance or rank; first; V: make ready; prepare |
| primary | first in rank or importance; principal; earliest in time; Ex. primary stages; N. CF. first |
| primal | first in rank or importance; being first in time; original; Ex. man's primal innocence |
| primate | group of mammals including humans |
| hiatus | gap; pause; gap or interruption in space or time; break |
| hibernal | wintry; wintery; of or like winter |
| hibernate | sleep throughout the winter; N. hibernation |
| hierarchy | arrangement by rank or standing; authoritarian body divided into ranks; body of persons having authority |
| totem | animal, plant, or natural object serving as a symbol of a clan or family; representation of this; Ex. totem pole |
| hieroglyphic | picture writing; ADJ. |
| hilarity | boisterous mirth(merriment; laughter); ADJ. hilarious: full of laughter |
| hindmost | furthest behind; farthest to the rear |
| wage | begin and continue (a war) |
| hindrance | block; obstacle; V. hinder |
| hinterlands | back country; inner part of a country; OP. foreland |
| hireling | one who serves for hire (usually used contemptuously); one who works solely for compensation; Ex. hireling politician |
| hirsute | hairy; having a lot of hair |
| histrionic | theatrical; excessively dramatic or emotional; affected; of actors or acting; N. histrionics: histrionic behavior |
| historic | important in history; Ex. historic battle |
| historical | connected with history; based on events in history (whether regarded as important or not) |
| hoard | stockpile; accumulate for future use; N: supply stored for future use |
| hoary | white with age |
| hoax | trick which makes someone take action; practical joke; Ex. hoax mail; V. |
| holocaust | destruction by fire; CF. burnt whole; CF. Holocaust |
| holster | leather pistol case (that hangs on a belt around the waist) |
| homage | honor; tribute; great respect; Ex. pay/do homage to |
| homeostasis | tendency of a system or organism to maintain relative stability or internal equilibrium; CF. homeo-: constant; Ex. homeotherm |
| homespun | domestic; made at home; spun or woven at home; simple and ordinary; Ex. homespun philosophy |
| spin | rotate swiftly; make (thread) by twisting (cotton, wool, etc.); N. |
| homily | sermon; tedious moralizing lecture; serious warning; ADJ. homiletic |
| homogeneous | of the same kind; uniform in composition throughout |
| hone | sharpen (a tool); N: whetstone for sharpening a tool |
| hoodwink | deceive; delude |
| horde | crowd; swarm |
| swarm | large group of insects moving in a mass; crowd of people or animals; V: move in a crowd or mass |
| hortatory | encouraging; exhortive; marked by exhortation; CF. exhort |
| horticultural | pertaining to cultivation of gardens; N. horticulture: science or art of cultivating fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants; CF. agriculture: science or art of farming or growing crops |
| hostility | unfriendliness; hatred; enmity; ADJ. hostile |
| hovel | shack; small wretched house |
| hut | crude dwelling; shack |
| shack | crude cabin |
| shed | small roofed structure for storage and shelter; V: pour forth; lose by natural process; repel without allowing penetration; radiate; cast; Ex. shed tears/light/water/skin/leaves |
| hover | hang about; (of birds or aircraft) stay in the air in one place; (of people) wait nearby; stay around one place; waver; be in an uncertain state |
| hubbub | confused uproar; loud noise; din |
| hubris | arrogance; excessive self-conceit |
| hue | color; aspect; Ex. opinions of every hue |
| hue_and_cry | outcry; loud cry or clamor; strong protest; Ex. hue and cry against the new rule |
| humane | marked by kindness or consideration; kind and compassionate; humanitarian |
| humanitarian | one devoted to the promotion of human welfare; CF. humanism |
| humdrum | dull; monotonous |
| humid | damp; N. humidity |
| humility | humbleness of spirit |
| humble | of low rank or position; modest; having a low opinion of oneself and a high opinion of others; unassuming; not proud; V. humiliate: make humble; cause to feel ashamed or to lose the respect of others |
| hummock | small hill; hillock |
| humus | substance or rich soil formed by decaying vegetable matter; CF. soil |
| hurtle | crash; rush; move with great speed; Ex. hurtling runaway train |
| husband | use sparingly; conserve; save; Ex. husband one's energy; CF. house holder |
| husbandry | frugality; thrift; economy; agriculture; farming; Ex. animal husbandry; CF. husbandman |
| hybrid | mongrel; mixed breed; V. hybridize |
| mongrel | plant or animal (esp. a dog) of mixed breed; ADJ. |
| pedigree | line of ancestors; ancestry; lineage; ADJ. (of an animal) descended from of a chosen family; Ex. pedigree dog; CF. crane's foot |
| hydrophobia | fear of water; rabies |
| rabies | disease passed on by the bite of an infected animal (causing madness and death) |
| hygiene | science and practice of the promotion and preservation of health; ADJ. hygienic: showing careful attention to cleanness (to prevent disease); Ex. hygienic condition |
| hyperbole | exaggeration; overstatement; ADJ. hyperbolic: of hyperbole; of a hyperbola |
| hypercritical | excessively exacting; too critical (without noticing good qualities) |
| hypochondriac | person unduly worried about his health; worrier without cause about illness; ADJ. CF. hypochondria: neurosis that one is or is becoming ill; CF. abdomen |
| hypocritical | pretending to be virtuous; deceiving; N. hypocrisy: profession of beliefs one does not possess; CF. hypocrite |
| hypothetical | based on assumptions or hypotheses; supposed; N. hypothesis |
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