Kaplan's Vocab H
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- habitat
- dwelling place
- hackneyed
- worn out by overuse
- hallowed
- holy; treated as sacred
- hamlet
- small village
- hapless
- unfortunate, having bad luck
- harbinger
- precursor, sign of something to come
- hardy
- robust, vigorous
- harrowing
- extremely distressing, terrifying
- hasten
- to hurry, to speed up
- haughty
- arrogant and condescending
- headstrong
- reckless; insisting on one's way
- heathen
- pagan; uncivilized and irreligious
- hectic
- hasty, hurried, confused
- hedonism
- pursuit of pleasure as a goal
- hegemony
- leadership, domination, usually by a country
- heighten
- to raise
- heinous
- shocking, wicked, terrible
- hemicycle
- semicircular form or structure
- hemorrhage (n)
- heavy bleeding
- hemorrhage (v)
- to bleed heavily
- heretical
- opposed to an established religious orthodoxy
- hermetic
- tightly sealed
- heterodox
- unorthodox, not widely accepted
- heterogeneous
- composed of unlike parts, different, diverse
- hew
- to cut with an ax
- hiatus
- break, interruption, vacation
- hidebound
- excessively rigid; dry and stiff
- hindsight
- perception of events after they happen
- hinterland
- wilderness
- hoary
- very old; whitish or gray from age
- holistic
- emphasizing importance of the whole and interdependence of its parts
- holocaust
- widespread distruction, usually by fire
- homage
- public honor and respect
- homogeneous
- composed of identical parts
- homonym
- word identical in pronunciation and spelling but different in meaning
- hone
- to sharpen
- honor
- to praise, glorify, pay tribute to
- humane
- merciful, kindly
- husband (v)
- to farm; manage carefully and thriftily
- hutch
- pen or coop for animals; shack, shanty
- hydrate
- to add water to
- hygienic
- clean, sanitary
- hymn
- religious song, usually of praise or thanks
- hyperbole
- purposeful exaggeration for effect
- hyperventilate
- to breathe abnormally fast
- hypochondria
- unfounded belief that one is often ill
- hypocrite
- person claiming beliefs or virtues he or she doesn't really possess
- hypothermia
- abnormally low body temperature
- hypothesis
- assumption subject to proof
- hypothetical
- theoretical, speculative