English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'H'

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English Vocabulary
Words Start from Letter 'H'

1. HAIL: To greet
   Sentence:
   * The crowd hailed the returning hero.
   Synonyms: accost, salute
   
   
2. HARANGUE:
   (1) (Verb): To deliver a long. noisy speech
   Sentence:
   * harangued the multitude.
   Synonyms: rant, declaim
   (2) (Noun): A loud, tiresome speech
   Sentence:
   * An empty harangue which bored his audience.
   Synonym: tirade
   
   
3. HARBINGER: A forerunner; ail announcer
   Sentence:
   * The robin, harbinger of spring.
   Synonyms: precursor, herald
   
   
4. HAUGHTY: Proud; looking down with contempt on others
   Sentence:
   * Dismissed the messenger in a haughty manner.
   
   
5. HEEDLESS: Thoughtless; taking little care
   Sentence:
   * Rushed into battle, heedless of the.danger.
   Synonyms: inadvertent, rash, incautious
   Antonyms: prudent, circumspect, mindful, wary
   
   
6. HEINOUS: Wicked; hateful
   Sentence:
   * Committed a heinous crime.
   Synonyms: atrocious, outrageous, monstrous, odious, nefarious, abominable.
   
   
7. HERESY: An opinion held in opposition to the traditional view
   Sentence:
   * A view condemned as heresy.
   Synonym: heterodoxy
   Antonym: orthodoxy
   
   
8. HIATUS: A gap or vacancy; break
   Sentence:
   * Left a hiatus on the page where he erased a sentence.
   Synonym: breach
   
   
9. HISTRIONIC: Pertaining to the theater; designed for show
   Sentence:
   * Broke into histrionic laughter, hollow and insincere.
   Synonyms: dramatic, theatrical
   
   
10. HOAX:
    (1) (Noun): A trick or deception; a practical joke
    Sentence:
    * Played a hoax upon the credulous public.
    Synonym: canard
    (2) (verb): To play a trick on; to deceive.
    Sentence:
    * He hoaxed the crowd completely with his disguise.
    
    
11. HOMONYM: Two words having the same sound but different meanings
    Sentence:
    * Confusing such homonyms as mail add male.
    
    
12. HOVEL: A dirty or wretched dwelling
    Sentence:
    * Born in a hovel, died in a mansion.
    
    
13. HYPERBOLE: Extravagant exaggeration for effect
    Sentence:
    * An example of hyperbole: "There are a million objections to the project."
    Synonym: overstatement
    Antonym: understatement
    
    
14. HYPOTHESIS: An assumption made for the sake of argument.
    Sentence:
    * Worked from a fantastic hypothesis.
    Synonym: supposition.