H words

Vocabulary encountered online since two previous laptops ago. The list is short and contains some common words like helot, heterodox, histrionic, homaging, hortatory, that I know for sure I knew before two previous laptops ago. I have no idea why they have cards, those are on the word lists included with GMAT workbooks to prepare for the MBA test, the best general puzzle books ever.

* hakenkreuz: swastika

* hallux: big toe, reversed to point posteriorly in birds, frequently opposable in arboreal mammals

* Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. British: "cock up before consipracy"
 
* hapax legomenon: Greek, something said only once, a word which occurs only once in either the written record of a language, the works of an author, or in a single text. While technically incorrect, the term is also sometimes used of a word that occurs in only one of an author's works, even though it occurs more than once in that work.

* haptic: proceeding from the sense of touch; "haptic data"; "a tactile reflex". The study of the sense of touch; The study of user interfaces that use the sense of touch

* harissa: a Tunisian hot chili sauce commonly eaten in North Africa whose main ingredients are Piri piri chili peppers, serrano pepper or other hot chillis and olive oil. It is a standard ingredient of North African cuisine

* hebephrenia: A type of schizophrenia characterized by foolish mannerisms, senseless laughter, delusions, hallucinations, and regressive behavior. Also: hebephrenic

* Hegelian, Hegel: In particular, he developed a concept of mind or spirit that manifested itself in a set of contradictions and oppositions that it ultimately integrated and united, without eliminating either pole or reducing one to the other. Examples of such contradictions include those between nature and freedom, and between immanence and transcendence.

* Heisenberg and Schrödinger are driving in a car…: they get pulled over. The police officer asks, “Do you know how fast you were going?” and Heisenberg says, “No. But I can tell you exactly where I was.”

The officer thinks that this peculiar response is grounds for a search so he opens the trunk and rummages around back there and then says, “Hey! Do you guys know that there is a dead cat back here?” Schrödinger rolls his eyes and says, “We do now, Asshole.”

* Hellenologophobia: Fear of long, pedantic, pseudo scientific words.

* helot: Sparta a member of a class of serfs in ancient Sparta, intermediate in status between slaves and citizens. A serf or slave. Class above slave

* hermeneutics: the art and science of text interpretation especially the bible. Traditional hermeneutics is the study of the interpretation of written texts. A wider discipline which includes written, verbal, and nonverbal communication. Exegesis focuses primarily upon texts. Hermeneutic, as a singular noun, refers to some particular method of interpretation (see, in contrast, double hermeneutic).

* herrenvolk: gentlemen folk
 
* heterarchy: a system of organization replete with overlap, multiplicity, mixed ascendancy, and/or divergent-but-coexistent patterns of relation. Definitions of the term vary among the disciplines: in social and information sciences, heterarchies are networks of elements in which each element shares the same "horizontal" position of power and authority, each playing a theoretically equal role. But in biological taxonomy, the requisite features of heterarchy involve, for example, a species sharing, with a species in a different family, a common ancestor which it does not share with members of its own family. This is theoretically possible under principles of "horizontal gene transfer."
A heterarchy may be parallel to a hierarchy, subsumed to a hierarchy, or it may contain hierarchies; the two kinds of structure are not mutually exclusive. In fact, each level in a hierarchical system is composed of a potentially heterarchical group which contains its constituent elements.

* heteroglossia: describes the coexistence of distinct varieties within a single "linguistic code". A diversity of voices, styles of discourse, or points of view in a literary work and especially a novel

* heterschedastic: 1. (Statistics) (of several distributions) having different variances 2. (Statistics) (of a bivariate or multivariate distribution) not having any variable whose variance is the same for all values of the other or others 3. (Statistics) (of a random variable) having different variances for different values of the others in a multivariate distribution.

* heterodox: dissident: characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards. pertaining to creeds, beliefs, or teachings, especially religious ones, that are different from the norm ('orthodox'), but not sufficiently different to be called heretical.

* heuristic: relating to a usually speculative formulation serving as a guide in the investigation or solution of a problem: "The historian discovers the past by the judicious use of such a heuristic device as the 'ideal type'". Constituting an educational method in which learning takes place through discoveries that result from investigations made by the student. Computer Science. Relating to or using a problem-solving technique in which the most appropriate solution of several found by alternative methods is selected at successive stages of a program for use in the next step of the program. a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem

* hibakusha: surviving victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are called hibakusha (被爆者?), a Japanese word that literally translates to "explosion-affected people". Many victims were Japanese who still live in Japan, but several thousand, Japanese and non Japanese, live abroad in Korea, United States, Brazil and elsewhere.

* high dudgeon: a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase `in high dudgeon') indignation, outrage - a feeling of righteous anger

* histrionic: relating to actors or acting. Excessively dramatic or emotional; affected.

* Hobson’s choice: In fact, the Hanoi parole offer was a ruse, a Hobson’s choice, designed to embarrass McCain and his father at CINCPAC.

If McCain took the parole and abandoned his fellow POWs, he would have shamed his father and been ostracized by shipmates. Indeed, had John McCain not been the son and grandson of famous and victorious, Pacific Command flag officers, no one would have noticed him then or now.

A Hobson's choice is a free choice in which only one option is actually offered. As a person may refuse to take that option, the choice is therefore really decided between taking the option or not. In other words, one may "take it or leave it." The phrase is said to originate with Thomas Hobson (1544–1631), a livery stable owner in Cambridge, England, who offered customers the choice of either taking the horse in his stall nearest the door or taking none at all.

* homaging:  respect or honor, something that is done to honor someone or something

homoaidia: I don't think 'homorepugnant' is the word you want, though. Perhaps 'homoaidia' (aidia meaning 'disgust' in greek?) would work better?

* Hoplophobia:  a neologism, originally coined to describe an "irrational aversion to weapons, as opposed to justified apprehension about those who may wield them." It is sometimes used more generally to describe the "fear of firearms" or the "fear of armed citizens."

* hortatory: tending or aiming to exhort."the central bank relied on hortatory messages and voluntary compliance"

* hornswoggle: cheat

* Hostis Humani Generis: enemy of mankind, pirates, slavers.

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* hydrocephalic: Nontechnical name: water on the brain  accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid within the ventricles of the brain because its normal outlet has been blocked by congenital malformation or disease. In infancy it usually results in great enlargement of the head

* hypergamy: (colloquially referred to as "marrying up") is the act or practice of marrying a spouse of higher caste or status than oneself.

* hypertrophy: the increase in the volume of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its component cells. It should be distinguished from hyperplasia, in which the cells remain approximately the same size but increase in number. Although hypertrophy and hyperplasia are two distinct processes, they frequently occur together, such as in the case of the hormonally-induced proliferation and enlargement of the cells of the uterus during pregnancy.

* hyphae: (plural hyphae) is a long, branching filamentous structure of a fungus, and also of unrelated Actinobacteria. In most fungi, hyphae are the main mode of vegetative growth, and are collectively called a mycelium; yeasts are unicellular fungi that do not grow as hyphae.

* hypnopaedic: sleep learning.