Saturday, 19 August 2023

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.


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