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- habitue: one who habitually frequents a place.
- halcyon: peaceful; undisturbed; happy.
- hale: free from disease and weakening conditions; healthy.
- harangue: a speech addressed to a large public assembly; also, a noisy or pompous speech.
- harbinger: a precursor; one that presages what is to come.
- hardscrabble: barren, marginal; also, marked by poverty.
- harridan: a scolding, vicious old woman.
- hauteur: haughtiness; pride; arrogance.
- hebetude: mental dullness or sluggishness.
- hector: to bully or harass.
- heterodox: holding unorthodox opinions.
- heterogeneous: consisting of dissimilar elements.
- hinterland: backcountry.
- hirsute: covered with hair or bristles.
- hirsute: shaggy; hairy.
- histrionic: theatrical.
- hobbledehoy: an awkward, gawky young fellow.
- hobnob: to associate familiarly.
- Hobson’s choice: a choice without an alternative.
- Hogmanay: the name, in Scotland, for the last day of the year.
- hoi polloi: the common people; the masses.
- homily: a sermon or lecture; also, an inspirational saying or a platitude.
- hortatory: giving strong encouragement; inciting.
- hortatory: serving to encourage or incite.
- hubris: overbearing pride or presumption.
- hugger-mugger: secret; also, muddled, disorderly.
- hugger-mugger: secret; clandestine.
- hullabaloo: a confused noise; uproar.
- hyperbole: extravagant exaggeration.
- hypnagogic: leading to sleep; hypnotic.
- idee fixe: a fixed idea; an obsession.
- Ides: the fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months
- idyll: a poem or prose work depicting rural or pastoral life; also, a carefree episode or experience.
- ignoble: not noble.
- ignoramus: an ignorant person; a dunce.
- imbroglio: a complicated and embarrassing state of things.
- imbue: to dye; to instill profoundly.
- immolate: to kill or destroy, often by fire.
- immure: to inclose within walls, or as within walls.
- impassible: incapable of suffering; also, unfeeling or not showing feeling.
- impassive: devoid of emotion; also, showing no emotion.
- impecunious: habitually without money; poor.
- impecunious: not having money.
- impervious: impenetrable; also, not capable of being affected.
- implacable: incapable of being pacified.
- importunate: troublesomely urgent.
- imprecation: a curse.
- impregnable: able to resist attack.
- improvident: lacking foresight; negligent; thoughtless.
- impugn: to call in question; to make insinuations against.
- inamorata: a woman whom one is in love with.
- inanition: exhaustion from lack of nourishment; also, emptiness.
- inchoate: partially but not fully in existence or operation.
- inchoate: partly but not fully in existence or operation.
- incipient: beginning to be; commencing; initial.
- incipient: beginning to exist or appear.
- inclement: harsh; severe — especially said of the weather.
- inclement: physically severe or harsh (esp. said of the weather).
- incommunicado: without means or right to communicate.
- incommunicado: without the means or right to communicate.
- incongruous: lacking in harmony.
- incontrovertible: indisputable; unquestionable.
- inculcate: to teach and impress by frequent repetition or instruction.
- inculcate: To teach by frequent repetitions.
- indefatigable: untiring.
- indelible: incapable of being removed or erased.
- indigence: extreme poverty.
- indigent: extremely poor.
- indolent: avoiding labor and exertion; lazy.
- indolent: lazy; inactive.
- indomitable: incapable of being subdued or overcome.
- indomitable: not to be subdued; untamable.
- ineffable: incapable of being expressed.
- ineffable: incapable of being expresses in words.
- ineffectual: without effect; weak; useless.
- ineluctable: impossible to avoid or evade.
- ineluctable: Impossible to avoid.
- inexorable: unyielding; relentless.
- ingenue: a naive girl or young woman, or an actress representing such a person.
- inhere: to be inherent.
- inimical: unfriendly; unfavorable.
- inkhorn: affectedly or ostentatiously learned.
- innocuous: harmless.
- innocuous: harmless; also, unlikely to offend or provoke.
- inscrutable: difficult to fathom or understand.
- inscrutable: difficult to fathom or understand; impenetrable.
- inscrutable: difficult to understand; incomprehensible.
- insensate: lacking sensation or awareness.
- insouciant: marked by lighthearted unconcern; carefree.
- insouciant: nonchalant.
- insuperable: incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome.
- interlard: to insert between; to mix.
- internecine: destructive; especially, mutually destructive; also, relating to conflict within a group.
- interpolate: to insert between; also, to alter or corrupt by insertion.
- interregnum: the interval between two reigns; also, any breach of continuity in an order.
- interstice: a space between things or parts.
- intractable: not easily governed, managed, or directed.
- intransigent: not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course.
- intransigent: uncompromising.
- intrepid: fearless; bold.
- introspection: the act or process of self-examination; reflection.
- inure: to make used to; also, to take or have effect.
- inure: to use till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience
- invective: insulting or abusive language.
- inveigh: to attack with harsh criticism.
- inveigh: to rail (against some person or thing).
- inveigle: to entice.
- inveigle: to persuade or obtain by ingenuity or flattery.
- inveterate: deep-rooted; of long standing.
- invidious: likely to produce ill will.
- invidious: tending to provoke envy or ill will
- iota: a very small quantity or degree.
- irascible: easily provoked to anger.
- irenic: promoting peace
- irrefragable: impossible to refute.
- irrupt: to burst in forcibly or suddenly.
- itinerant: going from place to place.
- itinerant: traveling from place to place.
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