GRE Vocabulary Cartoons: H Words

hortatory

encouraging; inciting

Hubris

excessive pride or self-confidence

hallowed

greatly respected; holy; sacred

hermetic

impervious to external influence; airtight

hardscrabble

involving hard work and struggle

husbandry

management of resources, especially in agriculture

homogeneous

of the same kind

Haptic

relating to the sense of touch

homespun

simple and unsophisticated

heyday

the period of greatest power, vigor, success, or influence; the prime years

herald

to bear news; to announce, messenger

Hector

to bully; to pester

harrow

to distress, create stress or torment

harried

tormented; harassed

hapless

unlucky

heterodox

unorthodox

hackneyed

used so often as to lack freshness or originality

harmonious

(adj.) able to get along together well; combining different elements that blend pleasingly; melodious

headlong

With great speed or force; reckless

harangue

a long, strongly expressed speech or lecture

holistic

dealing with something as a whole rather than by its individual parts

hegemony

domination over others

hidebound

(adj.) narrow-minded and rigid, especially in opinions or prejudices; stubbornly and unthinkingly conservative

histrionic

(adj.) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic

hiatus

(n.) a gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an element missing)

hodgepodge

Mixture of different kinds of things, jumble

harbinger

an omen or sign

haughty

arrogantly superior and disdainful

humdrum

boring

halcyon

calm and peaceful; happy; golden; prosperous

heterogeneous

composed of unlike parts; different; diverse

haggard

(adj.) thin, pale, and careworn as a result of worry or suffering; wild-looking

heinous

(adj.) very wicked, offensive, hateful