Letter H: WearYourDictionary Inventory: August 2020 [Moribund Institute]
Channel: English [Moribund Institute]
Date: 2020-08-21

Highfalutin - (informal) Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical
Holodomor - (historical) Holodomor (period of famine and alleged genocide in Ukraine in 1932 to 1933)
Hard-pressed - (idiomatic, usually with to-infinitive) Barely able. Having difficulty doing something
Hypercalcemia - a high calcium (Ca2+) level in the blood serum
Hyperpartisan - sharply polarized by political parties in fierce disagreement with each other
A hot stain is a region of the world where safe drinking water has been depleted
Hyperefficient - extremely efficient
Hapless - very unlucky; ill-fated
Hypertheoretical - excessively theoretical
Hebrewist - a scholar who is expert in the Hebrew language
Hard-nosed - (idiomatic) hardheaded, stubborn
Hypnagogic - that induces sleep; soporific, somniferous
Head Fake - (figurative) Any analogously misleading situation, such as a brief rise before a fall on the stock market.
Haughty - conveying in demeanour the assumption of superiority; disdainful, supercilious
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hypertheoretical
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hapless
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hyperefficient
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_stain
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hyperpartisan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercalcaemia
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hard-pressed
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/holodomor
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/highfalutin