horde N. /拥挤/crowd. Just before Christmas the stores are filled with hordes of shoppers.
horticultural ADJ. /园艺的/pertaining to cultivation of gardens. When he bought his house, he began to look for flowers and decorative shrubs, and began to read books dealing with horticultural matters.
host N. /很多;主人;宿主/great number; person entertaining guests; animal or plant from which a parasite gets its nourishment. You must attend to a host of details if you wish to succeed as host of a formal dinner party. Leeches are parasites that cling to their hosts and drink their hosts' blood.
hostility N. /不友好，敌意/unfriendliness; hatred. A child who has been the sole object of his parents' affection often feels hostility toward a new baby in the family, resenting the newcomer who has taken his place.
hovel N. /小屋/shack; small, wretched house. He wondered how poor people could stand living in such a hovel.
hover V. /逗留;盘旋;等待/hang about; wait nearby. The police helicopter hovered above the accident.
hue N. /色调/color; aspect. The aviary contained birds of every possible hue.
hulking ADJ. /大量的，巨大的/massive; bulky; great in size. Despite his hulking build, the heavyweight boxing champion was surprisingly light on his feet. hulk, N.
humane ADJ. /仁慈/marked by kindness or consideration. It is ironic that the Humane Society sometimes must show its compassion toward mistreated animals by killing them to put them out of their misery.
humdrum ADJ. /单调的/dull; monotonous. After his years of adventure, he could not settle down to a humdrum existence.
humid ADJ. /潮湿的/damp. She could not stand the humid climate and moved to a drier area.
humility N. /谦逊/humbleness of spirit. He spoke with a humility and lack of pride that impressed his listeners.
hurtle V. /冲击;碰撞;急冲/crash; rush. The runaway train hurtled toward disaster.
husband V. /节约/use sparingly; conserve; save. Marathon runners must husband their energy so that they can keep going for the entire distance.
hybrid N. /混合的，混血的/mongrel; mixed breed. Mendel's formula explains the appearance of hybrids and pure species in breeding. also ADJ.
hydrophobia N. /恐水症;狂犬病/rabies; fear of water. A dog that bites a human being must be observed for symptoms of hydrophobia.
hyperbole N. /夸张/exaggeration; overstatement. As far as I'm concerned, Apple's claims about the new computer are pure hyperbole: no machine is that good!
hypercritical ADJ. /及其夸张/excessively exacting. You are hypercritical in your demands for perfection; we all make mistakes.
hypochondriac N. /无病呻吟;忧郁症/person unduly worried about his health; worrier without cause about illness. The doctor prescribed chocolate pills for his patient who was a hypochondriac.
hypocritical ADJ. /伪善;欺骗/pretending to be virtuous; deceiving. Believing Eddie to be interested only in his own advancement, Greg resented his hypocritical posing as a friend. hypocrisy, N.
hypothetical ADJ. /基于假设的，设想的，假想的/based on assumptions or hypotheses; supposed. Suppose you are accepted by Harvard, Stanford, and Brown. Which one would you choose to attend? Remember, this is only a hypothetical situation. hypothesis, N.
ichthyology N. /鱼类学/study of fish. Jacques Cousteau's programs about sea life have advanced the cause of ichthyology.
icon N. /偶像，象征;图标/religious image; idol. The icons on the walls of the church were painted in the 13th century.
iconoclastic ADJ. /打破旧习/attacking cherished traditions. Deeply iconoclastic, Jean Genet deliberately set out to shock conventional theatergoers with his radical plays.
ideology N. /意识形态/system of ideas of a group. For people who had grown up believing in the communist ideology, it was hard to adjust to capitalism.
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