IELTS Exam Vocabulary List - H
- habitable adj. Fit to be dwelt in.
- habitant n. Dweller.
- habitual adj. According to usual practice.
- 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.
- handwriting n. Penmanship.
- hanger-on n. A parasite.
- happy-go-lucky adj. Improvident.
- harangue n. A tirade.
- harass v. To trouble with importunities, cares, or annoyances.
- harbinger n. One who or that which foreruns and announces the coming of any person or thing.
- hard-hearted adj. Lacking pity or sympathy.
- hardihood n. Foolish daring.
- harmonious adj. Concordant in sound.
- havoc n. Devastation.
- hawthorn n. A thorny shrub much used in England for hedges.
- hazard n. Risk.
- head first adv. Precipitately, as in diving.
- head foremost adv. Precipitately, as in diving.
- heartrending adj. Very depressing.
- heathenish adj. Irreligious.
- heedless adj. Thoughtless.
- heifer n. A young cow.
- heinous adj. Odiously sinful.
- hemorrhage n. Discharge of blood from a ruptured or wounded blood-vessel.
- hemorrhoids n. pl. 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. Having the character of a herb.
- herbarium n. A collection of dried plants scientifically arranged for study.
- herbivorous adj. Feeding on herbs or other vegetable matter, as animals.
- hereditary adj. Passing naturally from parent to child.
- 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.
- heritage n. Birthright.
- hernia n. Protrusion of any internal organ in whole or in part from its normal position.
- hesitancy n. A pausing to consider.
- hesitant adj. Vacillating.
- hesitation n. Vacillation.
- heterodox adj. At variance with any commonly accepted doctrine or opinion.
- 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.
- hexagon n. A figure with six angles.
- hiatus n. A break or vacancy where something necessary to supply the connection is wanting.
- hibernal adj. Pertaining to winter.
- Hibernian adj. Pertaining to Ireland, or its people.
- hideous adj. Appalling.
- hilarious adj. Boisterously merry.
- hillock n. A small hill or mound.
- hinder v. To obstruct.
- hindmost adj. Farthest from the front.
- hindrance n. An obstacle.
- 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.
- hospitable adj. Disposed to treat strangers or guests with generous kindness.
- hospitality n. The practice of receiving and entertaining strangers and guests with kindness.
- hostility n. Enmity.
- huckster n. One who retails small wares.
- humane adj. Compassionate.
- humanitarian n. A philanthropist.
- humanize v. To make gentle or refined.
- humbug n. Anything intended or calculated to deceive or mislead.
- humiliate v. To put to shame.
- hussar n. A light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine.
- hustle v. To move with haste and promptness. .
- hybrid adj. Cross-bred.
- 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 branch of mechanics that treats of the dynamics of fluids.
- hydroelectric adj. Pertaining to electricity developed water or steam.
- hydromechanics n. The mechanics of fluids.
- 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.
- hygiene n. The branch of medical science that relates to improving health.
- hypercritical adj. Faultfinding.
- hypnosis n. An artificial trance-sleep.
- hypnotic adj. Tending to produce sleep.
- 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.
- hypocrisy n. Extreme insincerity.
- hypocrite n. One who makes false professions of his views or beliefs.
- hypodermic adj. Pertaining to the area under the skin.
- hypotenuse n. The side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle.
- hypothesis n. A proposition taken for granted as a premise from which to reach a conclusion.
- hysteria n. A nervous affection occurring typically in paroxysms of laughing and crying.
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