Vocabulary English-English With H Part 1
Haggle (verb)
to negotiate over the terms of a purchase, agreement, or contract
- Many felt--or were told--that the dealer wouldn’t haggle because of special pricing or financing on the vehicle.
Handicap (verb)
to have an unfavorable condition, circumstance, or characteristic
- In searching for a cure for the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus, researchers have been handicapped because of a lacking of funding by the government.
Habitat (noun)
the natural environment of an animal or plant
- Fires help habitats and are important to endangered species of animals that rely on these plants for survival.
Hail (verb)
to greet with enthusiastic approval: praise, acclaim
- Economists, however, hailed the report, saying it suggested consumer spending could rise at a 3 percent pace in the second quarter.
Hallucination (noun)
an erroneous perception of reality
- Certain kinds of illicit drugs are known to cause users to experience hallucinations.
Halt (verb)
to prevent the occurrence or continuation or a movement, action, or operation
- If the neutron star is too large, the gravitational forces overwhelm the pressure gradients and collapse cannot be halted.
Hammer (verb)
to make repeated efforts; especially : to reiterate an opinion or attitude
- The most effective technique is to start with the dealer's cost and bargain slowly up from there, rather than starting with the asking price and trying to hammer that downwards.
Hamper by (verb)
the interfere with the progress of
- Electric car production is hampered by the limited energy supply of their batteries.
Handicraft (noun)
an occupation requiring great skill with the hands; the articles fashioned by those engaged in handicraft
- Acting as a sideline to farming and other occupations, traditional handicrafts are important to many Native American tribes.
Hardy (adjective)
capable of withstanding adverse conditions
- Llamas are used to protect cattle and sheep herds from wolves. Among the oldest domestic animals in the world, they are hardy, intelligent, and easy to train.
Harness (verb)
to make use of, i.e., natural resources, especially to produce energy
- The challenge of the 21st century is to harness such forces, and civic will, for strategic regional planning.
Hatch (verb)
to cause to come into existence
- The Goliath and Hercules Beetle lay their eggs in rubbish heap, rotting tree trunks, sawdust, and other vegetative matter. These hatch into small larvae in 10 to 18 days.
Hatchling (noun)
an animal which has recently emerged from an egg, chrysalis, or pupa
- Being a fraction of the size of sea-feeding adults, the parr are able to sneak up and fertilize a female's eggs without being noticed. Up to 40 percent of hatchlings are fathered by these parr.
Hazardous (adjective)
involving risk, loss, or injury
- It is prohibited to dispose of hazardous waste along the highway.
Head (verb)
to point or proceed in a certain direction
- Dr. Eric Topol, cardiology chief at the Cleveland Clinic, said the polypill idea runs counter to the way medicine is headed in the future, which is toward personalized medication based on an individual's genetic profile.
Headfirst (adverb)
with the head foremost
- Like black bears, porcupines climb down a tree backward because their hind paws cannot support them if they go down headfirst.
Head-on (adjective)
with the head or front making the initial contact
- Strong neck and shoulder muscles and an extra-thick skull absorb the impact of head-on
- collisions.
Headwater (noun)
streams flowing at the sources of a river
- Lake Itasca, located in upstate Minnesota, contains the headwaters to the Mississippi River.
Headquarters (noun)
administrative center of an organization
- Today, we find the national park headquarters and overnight accommodations in this area, including Furnace Creek Ranch and Furnace Creek Inn.
Headway (noun)
forward movement
- Remarkably, the Salmon fish makes significant headway against the swift currents of a river.
Heaps (noun)
a disordered pile of something
- Many insects are known to lay their eggs in garbage heaps.
Hearing (noun)
a chance to be heard; preliminary appearance in a court, a chance to state someone’s case
- Adams's innate conservatism made him determined in 1770 that the British soldiers accused of the Boston Massacre be given a fair hearing.
Heartland (noun)
a central geographical region especially of the U.S. in which main stream or traditional values predominate
- His story dramatizes the profound changes taking place in America’s heartland.
Hemisphere (noun)
half of the earth as divided by the equator
- Badwater is the lowest point in the hemisphere at 282 feet below sea level.
Herald (verb)
to make known the presence or arrival of
- With ominous dark clouds quickly approaching from the horizon, the storm heralded trouble for the city of Tupelo.
Heredity (noun)
the sum of the qualities and potentialities genetically derived from one’s ancestors
- Heredity may sometimes be a deciding factor in why some people become clinically obese.
Heresy (noun)
an opinion, doctrine, or practice contrary to the truth or to generally accepted beliefs
- Vigorously opposing this teaching, the First Council of Constantinople reasserted the Nicene condemnation of Arianism as heresy in 381, and Arianism soon disappeared from the Roman Empire.
Heretofore (adverb)
up to this time; hitherto
- Satellites, combined with state-of-the-art imaging techniques, offer ordinary humans something heretofore found only among comic-book superheroes: the gift of super sight.
Heyday (noun)
the period of one's greatest strength, vigor, or prosperity
- After all, you don't have to be a wizard to realize that overloading on real estate today makes about as much sense as overloading on tech funds did during their heyday in the late '90s.
Hiatus (noun)
an interruption in time or continuity; break
- After a six-year hiatus in human space flight, NASA debuted the space shuttle Columbia with a radical new idea: a reusable spaceship that would take off like a conventional rocket and land like a glider.
Hibernate (verb)
to spend the winter in a state of temporary inactivity
- Snakes hibernate in the burrows of other small animals, but they are often seen laying in the sun on rocks, and on the side of roads.
Hide (noun)
the skin of an animal
- The Assiniboine, a tribe of Plains Indians, made their clothing from the hides of their dead prey.
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