Putnam's Word Book - LightNovelsOnl.com
You're reading novel online at LightNovelsOnl.com. Please use the follow button to get notifications about your favorite novels and its latest chapters so you can come back anytime and won't miss anything.
herald, v. proclaim, announce, foretell, usher in.
herd, n. drove; rabble, mob, mult.i.tude. a.s.sociated Words: gregarious, gregal.
herdsman, n. ranchman, vaquero, cowboy, vacher.
hereditary, a. ancestral, patrimonial, inheritable, inherited.
heritage, n. inheritance, hereditament, patrimony; possession.
hermit, n. recluse, anch.o.r.et, anchorite, eremite, solitary, cen.o.bite.
heroic, a. valiant, bold, daring, brave; desperate, drastic, extreme.
heroism, n. courage, valor, bravery, prowess, fort.i.tude, intrepidity.
hesitancy, n. indecision, vacillation, uncertainty, irresolution, wavering.
hesitate, v. doubt, vacillate, falter, dubitate, waver, scruple, demur, deliberate.
hesitation, n. indecision, doubt, vacillation, reluctance, wavering.
hidden, a. covert, latent, concealed; recondite, esoteric, abstruse, unrevealed.
hide, v. veil, cloak, conceal, dissemble, cache, secrete, mask; skulk, lurk.
hidebound, a. untractable, bigoted, obstinate, uncompromising.
hideous, a. horrible, grim, ogreish, grisly, repulsive, ugly, ghastly, shocking.
hiding, n. concealment, secretion.
high, a. lofty, tall, elevated, towering.
high and dry. aground, beached, stranded.
high and mighty. (Colloq.) arrogant, overbearing, domineering, lordly.
higher, a. supernal.
highest, a. loftiest, superlative, meridian, maximum, supreme, topgallant.
highest good. _summum bonum_.
highest point. meridian, culmination, zenith, maximum.
highfaluting, a. bombastic, grandiloquent.--n. bombast.
highflown, a. bombastic, grandiloquent, pretentious, magniloquent, grandiose.
highflying, a. aspiring, presumptuous, ambitious, Icarian.
highgo, n. (Colloq.) spree, revel, carousal.
highhanded, a. overbearing, tyrannical, arbitrary, autocratic, despotic.
high jinks. (Colloq.) revelry, carousal, wild sport.
highland, n. plateau.
high liver. gormand, sybarite, epicure, gourmet, voluptuary, gastronomer, _bon vivant_.
high living. gormandism, sybaritism, epicurism, luxury. Antonyms: asceticism, abstemiousness, moderation.
highminded, a. magnanimous, honorable, n.o.ble. Antonyms: mean, base, low, servile, abject, ign.o.ble.
highmindedness, n. magnanimity.
high time. full time; (Slang) carousal, revelry.
hightoned, a. shrill, acute; magnanimous, honorable; (Colloq.) fas.h.i.+onable, aristocratic.
highwayman, n. bandit, desperado, road agent, outlaw, footpad.
hill, n. mound, eminence, knoll, elevation; monadnock; b.u.t.te; monticle; copple; Acropolis; foothill.
hillock, n. knoll, mound.
hilly, a. undulating, uneven, rolling.
hind, n. rustic, boor, peasant.
hinder, n. (Slang) b.u.t.tocks, rump, seat, fundament.
hinder, a. rear, back.
hinder, v. r.e.t.a.r.d, obstruct, hamper, impede, forestall, forefend, check, thwart, foil.
hindrance, n. r.e.t.a.r.dation, hindering; obstacle, impediment, obstruction, restraint, frustration, enc.u.mbrance, check.
hinge joint. diarthrosis, ginglymus.
hint, v. intimate, suggest, imply, allude to, refer.
hint, n. allusion, suggestion, insinuation, intimation, innuendo, inkling.
hip, n. haunch, huckle; (hip-bone) innominate, ilium, ischium, pubis. a.s.sociated Words: sciatic, ischial, ischiatic, c.o.xalgia, acetabulum.
hire, n. salary, wages, pay, stipend, remuneration, compensation.--v. engage; let, lease.
