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hackneyed
The plot of the movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was hackneyed. It was just another horror movie about an ax murderer who hacked knees off. |
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haggard
After a long voyage with the Vikings, Hagar the Horrible looked haggard. |
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| unruly; wild; wasted; worn |
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hallowed
I was hanging out in the cemetery, but I didn't know I was on hollowed hallowed ground until I fell into a grave. |
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harangue
The zookeeper gave us a lengthy harangue about feeding the orangutan. |
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| mean, nasty, angry speech (think: a speech that is so loud that it impairs your hearing) |
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harbinger
Some words have only one sentence in which they are ever used. The sentence for harbinger is: "The robin is the harbinger of spring." |
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| forerunner; something that signals the approach of something; omen |
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haughty
He thinks he's hot. He shouldn't be so haughty. |
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| the philosophy of trying to be happy all the time; a funky state of being in which you do your own thing and don't worry about morality |
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hedonist
You are being a stoic by studying for the SAT so that you can get into college and spend four years being a hedonist. |
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one who follows the philosophy of hedonism
Note: Compare these two words to STOICISM and STOIC, which are their respective opposites. |
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heinous
The scarecrows said, "Because we have hay in us, it is a heinous crime to invite us to a bonfire." |
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| grossly wicked; vile; odious |
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hierarchy
As Heather moved higher up the high school heirarchy, she realized that popularity was not all it's cracked up to be. (This sentence was based on an after-school special.) |
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hirsute
He was hirsute in his ape costume, which was really just a hair suit. He borrowed it from his girlfirend Rapunzel; it was her suit. |
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| hairy (pronounced "her-suit") |
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hoary
When someone who is hirsute gets old, he is hairy and hoary. |
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| gray or white from age; old |
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homily
The homely preacher delivered a homily. |
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homonym
The German words sechs, meaning "six," is a homonym of the English word sex, meaning "sex." |
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| a word that sounds like another word but has a different meaning |
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