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SAT Vocabulary Words Starting With H
Can you guess the definitions of these words that commonly appear in on the Scholastic Aptitude Test?
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Harangue (verb)
To criticize harshly and at length
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To gather a group together
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To lead astray
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To strangle with a cord or wire
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The coach would often harangue his team after a loss
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Hoary (adjective)
Easily fooled; credulous
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Exhibiting both male and female characteristics
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Frozen solid
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White with age
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Gandalf stroked his hoary beard
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Hubris (noun)
A Jewish circumcision ceremony
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A covered bridge
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Debris caused by a shipwreck
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Excessive pride
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David challenging Goliath must have seemed like an act of hubris
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Harbinger (noun)
A large horn which can be blown to make a sound
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A tool used to harvest wheat
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One who has extremely poor luck
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Something that foreshadows the coming of something else
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The Silver Surfer is the harbinger of Galactus, the world-eater
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Hearsay (noun)
A belief which contradicts official dogma
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A common lie
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Information heard from another person, not witnessed directly
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The distance at which something can be heard
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Objection, your honor, hearsay! The witness never saw the car in question.
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Haughty (adjective)
Expressing superiority and contempt
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Having a doughy figure
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Impractical; whimsical
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Like an angel
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After becoming famous, she adopted a haughty attitude towards her former friends
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Horde (noun)
A cache of hidden treasure
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A hideous monster
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A large group of nomadic people
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A pile of rocks stacked to mark a trail
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The Mongol horde spread across the plain as far as the eye could see
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Heinous (adjective)
Extremely evil
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Incompetent
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Judgmental
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Swollen
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In light of the defendant's heinous crimes, I have no choice but to sentence him to life in prison
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Halcyon (adjective)
Brimming with life
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Encrusted with gems
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Of the highest rank
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Serene and peaceful
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The halcyon reign of Queen Elizabeth was free of the constant upheaval which had marked the previous era
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Histrionic (adjective)
Excessively dramatic
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Favoring a return to a past era
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Growing at an increasing rate
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Moving in a stiff, robotic way
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She ignored the child's histrionic outburts
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Heterogeneous (adjective)
Attracted to members of the opposite sex
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Composed of diverse parts
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Inclined towards hatred
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The best in its category
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The population of New York City is ethnically heterogeneous
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Horticulture (noun)
A book about the life of a saint
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A system of canals
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The customs of ordinary people as opposed to the elite
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The science of cultivating plants
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Passionate about horticulture, she applied for a job at the botanical gardens
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Hovel (noun)
A disability or impediment
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A piece of investigative journalism
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A small dilapidated cottage or hut
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A spade or other hole-digging implement
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The penniless miner lived in a hovel on the side of the mountain
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Hyperbole (noun)
An empty region of space
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Extreme exaggeration
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The polar regions of the Earth
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The rejection of common morality
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The media frequently employs hyperbole to increase engagement
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Hedonist (noun)
One who dabbles in multiple fields of knowledge
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One who pursues pleasure above all else
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One who searches for hidden meaning in the Torah
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One who tends to plants; a gardener
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The ancient Romans were not unrepentent hedonists, as they are so often depicted
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Is hyperbole a countable noun? Don't think I've ever heard it used that way before.
hyperbole (countable and uncountable, plural hyperboles)
(uncountable, rhetoric, literature) Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
(countable) An instance or example of such overstatement.
It trips up English-speakers, too. For example, "enormity" and "masterful" don't mean what you would think they mean, by extension (they don't mean "enormousness" or "masterly").
I can't believe I breezed over "Horde" and defined "hoard". Need more coffee.
I was also surprised at heinous scoring high. But I guess it might come up in the news often, which I don't generally watch or read in English (not much in my own language either).
I get my vocab from other places than native English speakers would (no every day conversations and news, but novels, and articles on subjects I am interested in. And ofcourse, jetpunk ;) ) So it is always surprising and interesting to see the percentages on the resultpage.
For this quiz I missed harangue. Don't think I have ever come across it. It reminded me of harass and harrow, but figured that was why it was put as one of the possible answers, to trick you.
The SAT wouldn't have any of these words on the test. It's not the '80s anymore, a lot has changed since then. They don't test you on obscure vocabulary.