Vocabulary Words - Fifth Grade - H:

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• habit
  (n.) Something done often/regularly; a custom.
  
  
• halfway
  (adj.) The middle point between two things.
  
  
• handshake
  (n.) When you shake someone's right hand with your own in a sign of greeting or goodbye.
  
  
• handsome
  (adj.) Attractive, good looking.
  
  
• handwriting
  (n.) A person's style of writing.
  
  
• hanger
  (n.) An object you use to hang clothes on, made of metal, wood, or plastic.
  
  
• haul
  (v.) To carry or pull something heavy.
  
  
• hazy
  (adj.) Unclear due to smoke or polluted air.
  
  
• heaven
  (n.) The place where good people go after they die.
  (n.) A restful or peaceful place or situation.
  
  
• hem
  (n.) The border of clothing that is turned up and sewn down.
  
  
• hemisphere
  (n.) Half of the earth.
  
  
• hinge
  (n.) A metal part that joins two things together like a door and a frame so that one part can swing open and shut.
  
  
• hire
  (v.) To employ someone to work for a company or person.
  (v.) To give someone a job.
  
  
• hitchhike
  (v.) To travel by asking for free rides in other people's cars.
  
  
• hoist
  (v.) To raise or lift.
  
  
• homeland
  (n.) The nation where a person was born or grew up.
  
  
• honeycomb
  (n.) An object bees use to store their honey.
  
  
• hourglass
  (n.) A glass container filled with sand, used to keep track of time.
  
  
• humble
  (adj.) Modest, not proud.
  
  
• hundred
  (conjunction) The number 100.
  
  
• hunk
  (conjunction) A large piece of something.
  (conjunction) A name for an attractive man.
  
  
• hypothesis
  (n.) A guess about how or why something happens.
  
  

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