SAT words from 'honorarium' to 'Iliad'
Words alphabetically from 'honorarium' to 'Iliad' from the monster 5000-word at http://www.freevocabulary.com/
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- honorarium
- A token fee or payment to a professional man for services.
- hoodwink
- To deceive.
- horde
- A gathered multitude of human beings.
- hosiery
- A stocking.
- hospitable
- Disposed to treat strangers or guests with generous kindness.
- hospitality
- The practice of receiving and entertaining strangers and guests with kindness.
- hostility
- Enmity.
- huckster
- One who retails small wares.
- humane
- Compassionate.
- humanitarian
- A philanthropist.
- humanize
- To make gentle or refined.
- humbug
- Anything intended or calculated to deceive or mislead.
- humiliate
- To put to shame.
- hussar
- A light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine.
- hustle
- To move with haste and promptness.
- hybrid
- Cross-bred.
- hydra
- The seven- or nine-headed water-serpent slain by Hercules.
- hydraulic
- Involving the moving of water, of the force exerted by water in motion.
- hydrodynamics
- The branch of mechanics that treats of the dynamics of fluids.
- hydroelectric
- Pertaining to electricity developed water or steam.
- hydromechanics
- The mechanics of fluids.
- hydrometer
- An instrument for determining the density of solids and liquids by flotation.
- hydrostatics
- The branch of science that treats of the pressure and equilibrium of fluids.
- hydrous
- Watery.
- hygiene
- The branch of medical science that relates to improving health.
- hypercritical
- Faultfinding.
- hypnosis
- An artificial trance-sleep.
- hypnotic
- Tending to produce sleep.
- hypnotism
- An artificially induced somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestion.
- hypnotize
- To produce a somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestions.
- hypocrisy
- Extreme insincerity.
- hypocrite
- One who makes false professions of his views or beliefs.
- hypodermic
- Pertaining to the area under the skin.
- hypotenuse
- The side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle.
- hypothesis
- A proposition taken for granted as a premise from which to reach a conclusion.
- hysteria
- A nervous affection occurring typically in paroxysms of laughing and crying.
- ichthyic
- Fish-like.
- ichthyology
- The branch of zoology that treats of fishes.
- ichthyosaurs
- A fossil reptile.
- icily
- Frigidly.
- iciness
- The state of being icy.
- icon
- An image or likeness.
- iconoclast
- An image-breaker.
- idealize
- To make to conform to some mental or imaginary standard.
- idiom
- A use of words peculiar to a particular language.
- idiosyncrasy
- A mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual.
- idolize
- To regard with inordinate love or admiration.
- ignoble
- Low in character or purpose.
- ignominious
- Shameful.
- Iliad
- A Greek epic poem describing scenes from the siege of Troy.