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| Word | Type | Used in a Sentence | Synonym |
| homicide | noun | The man's death was ruled a homicide. | the killing of one person by another |
| homogeneous | adj. | They lived in a very homogeneous society. | of the same or similar nature of kind |
| hostage | noun | They kept the man as their hostage. | a person kept in a conflict as security |
| humane | adj. | They received quite humane treatment. | characterized by kindness, mercy or compassion |
| humid | adj. | The weather at time was somewhat humid. | air contains high amount of water vapor |
| hunch | noun | On a hunch he bet on the first horse. | an intuitive feeling or premonition |
| verb | Her back hunched over from old age. | to bend or draw up into a hump | |
| husbandry | noun | They were in the animal husbandry business. | the act of growing crops and raising livestock |
| hybrid | noun | My son's personal car is a hybrid. | a power plant having two kinds of power |
| hyphen | noun | A hyphen provides a number of grammar solutions. | a punctuation mark (-) |