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Hiatus (noun) 

an interruption in time or continuity; break   After a six-year hiatus in human space flight, NASA debuted the space shuttle Columbia

with a radical new idea: a reusable spaceship that would take off like a conventional

rocket and land like a glider. 

Hibernate (verb) 

to spend the winter in a state of temporary inactivity

Snakes hibernate in the burrows of other small animals, but they are often seen laying

in the sun on rocks, and on the side of roads.

Hide (noun) 

the skin of an animal

The Assiniboine, a tribe of Plains Indians, made their clothing from the hides of their

dead prey.

Hieroglyphics (noun) 

written in, or constituting, or belonging to a system of writing in mainly pictorial 

characters 

It is agreed by most historians that the English alphabet descended from ancient 

Egyptian hieroglyphics. 

Highlight (verb) 

to draw attention to something, such as marking a text with a yellow pen  

An active reader underlines or highlights important points he has just read. 

Hijack (verb)  

to steal by stopping a vehicle on the highway; to commandeer a flying airplane especially 

by coercing the pilot at gunpoint   

A fourth airplane traveling from Newark to San Francisco was hijacked and, after

turning east from its westerly course across Pennsylvania and Ohio, crashed in rural

Somerset County, Pennsylvania at 10:03 a.m. 

Hind (noun) 

forming the part that follows or is behind; rear 

When bats sleep, they hang their head downwards from the long curved claws of their

hind limbs.

 Hollow (adjective) 

a space in an otherwise solid mass

The entire digestive system from the mouth to the anal sphincter is a single, long, hollow

muscular tube about 30 feet long.

Home run (noun) 

a hit in baseball that enables the batter to make a complete circuit of the bases and score a 

run

The controversial supplement used by baseball slugger Mark McGwire during his 1998

record-breaking home run streak has once again struck out. Researchers found that

androstenedione, known as "andro" for short, doesn't live up to its marketers' claims. 

     

Homologous (adjective) 

having the same relation, relative position; corresponding

Though artificial chimp signaling systems have some analogies to human language (e.g.,

use in communication, combinations of more basic signals), it seems unlikely that they

are homologous.