[SAT Vocab] letter 'h'

habitude

n. customary relation or association

hackney

v. to make stale or trite by repetition

haggard

adj. worn and gaunt in appearance

halcyon

adj. calm

hale

adj. of sound and vigorous health

hanger-on

adj. of sound and vigorous health

happy-go-lucky

adj. improvident

harangue

n. a tirade

harass

v. to trouble with importunities, cares or annoyances

hard-hearted

adj. lacking pity or sympathy

hardihood

n. foolish daring

hawthorn

n. a thorny shrub much used in England for hedges

head first

adv. precipitately, as in diving

head foremost

adv. precipitately, as in diving

heartenish

adj. irreligious

heedless

adj. unmindful; oblivious; rash

heifer

n. a young cow

hemorrhage

n. discharge of blood from a ruptured or wounded blood-

vessel

hemorrhoids

n. tumors composed of enlarged and thickened blood-

vessels, at the lower end of the rectum

henchman

n. a servile assistant and subordinate

henpeck

v. to worry or harass by ill temper and petty annoyances

heptagon

n. a figure having seven sides and seven angles

heptarchy

n. a group of seven governments

herbaceous

adj. describes plants or plant parts that are fleshy and

wither after each growing season

herbarium

n. a collection of dried plants scientifically arranged for

study

herbivorous

adj. feeding on herbs or other vegetable matter, as

animals

heredity

n. transmission of physical or mental qualities, diseases,

etc., from parent to offspring

heresy

n. an opinion or doctrine subversive of settled beliefs or

accepted principles

heretic

n. one who holds opinions contrary to the recognized

standards or tenets of any philosophy

hernia

n. protrusion of any internal organ in whole or in part from

its normal position

hesitant

adj. vacillating

heterogeneity

n. unlikeness of constituent parts

heterogeneous

adj. consisting of dissimilar elements or ingredients of

different kinds

heteromorphic

adj. deviating from the normal form or standard type

hexangular

adj. having six angles

hexapod

adj. having six feet

hiatus

n. a break or vacancy where something necessary to

supply the connection is wanting

hibernian

adj. pertaining to Ireland or its people

hilock

n. a small mound

hindmost

adj. farthest from the front

hirsute

adj. having a hairy covering

hoard

v. to gather and store away for the sake of accumulation

hoarse

adj. having the voice harsh or rough, as from a cold or

fatigue

homage

n. reverential regard or worship

homogeneity

n. congruity of the members or elements or parts

homogeneous

adj. made up of similar parts or elements

homologous

adj. identical in nature, make-up or relation

homonym

n. a word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning

from another

homophone

n. a word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning

from another

honorarium

n. a token fee or payment to a professional man for

services

hoodwink

v. to deceive

horde

n. a gathered multitude of human beings

hosiery

n. a stocking

huckster

n. person who retails small wares

humanize

v. to make gentle or refined

humbug

n. anything intended or calculated to deceive or mislead

hussar

n. a light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine

hydra

n. the seven- or nine-headed water-serpent slain by

Hercules

hydraulic

adj. involving the moving of water, of the force exerted by

water in motion

hydrodynamics

n. the study of force exerted by the motion of liquids

hydroelectric

adj. pertaining to electricity developed water or steam

hydromechanics

n. a part of the study of liquids

hydrometer

n. an instrument for determining the density of solids and

liquids by flotation

hydrostatics

n. the branch of science that treats of the pressure and

equilibrium of fluids

hydrous

adj. watery

hypnotism

n. an artificially induced somnambulistic state in which

the mind readily acts on suggestion

hypnotize

v. to produce a somnambulistic state in which the mind

readily acts on suggestions

hypodermic

adj. pertaining to the area under the skin

hypotenuse

n. the side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right

angle

hysteria

n. a nervous affection occurring typically in paroxysms of

laughing and crying