English 4 Vocabulary Week 9
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- heresy
- anti-religious opinion
- heretic
- person who maintains opinion contrary to church doctrine
- heterogeneous
- different in kind
- heyday
- a period of success
- hiatus
- a break in the continuity of work series, action
- hibernal
- pertaining to winter
- hirsute
- hairy
- histrionic
- theatrical
- holocaust
- a destruction by fire
- homily
- sermon
- homogeneous
- of the same kind
- hurtle
- to speed
- husbandry
- the study of raising crops and animals
- hybrid
- mongrel; mixed breed
- hydrophobia
- rabies; fear of water
- hyperbole
- exaggeration
- hypochondriac
- one who worries about his health
- iconoclast
- destroyer of idols or images
- idyll
- short poem describing simple living
- ignoble
- dishonorable
- ignominious
- shameful
- illicit
- unlawful
- imbibe
- absorb
- imbroglio
- confused state of affairs
- immutable
- unchangeable
- impalpable
- vague; not understandable
- impasse
- dead end; difficult situation
- impeach
- to accuse
- impecunious
- poor
- impertinent
- irrelevant: rude
- implicit
- absolute; suggested
- importune
- to trouble with requests
- impugn
- to attack by words or arguments
- impute
- attribute something bad to another
- incendiary
- imflammatory
- incipient
- beginning to appear
- incongruous
- not harmonious; innappropriate
- incredulous
- skeptical
- increment
- increase
- incubus
- nightmare
- indigent
- poor
- indolent
- lazy
- indulgence
- act of pampering
- ineffable
- beyond words; unspeakable
- ineluctable
- inevitable
- ineptitude
- awkwardness
- inert
- without power to move or react
- inexorable
- unyielding
- infernal
- hellish; outrageous
- infidel
- an unbeliever