Vocabulary Builders: Useful Phrases, Page 8 (H)
This section of EnhanceMyVocabulary.com focuses on ways to enliven your writing and speech. You'll find a collection of colorful phrases to add extra flavor and help develop your vocabulary
If you are looking for ways to enliven your writing and speech, this classic collection from Grenville Kleiser provides an abundance of colorful phrases.
You can review these lists when you seek a little extra punch in written works, and you can also use them to develop your vocabulary by identifying, looking up, and learning words you don't know.
This set of useful phrases consists of nouns (occasionally verbs or adjectives) modified by adjectives or adverbs.
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habitual deference
hackneyed statement
hairbreadth difference
halcyon innocence
hallowed stillness
halting praise
hampered power
handsomely recompensed
haphazard ostentation
happy intuition
harassing anxiety
hardened indifference
harmless mirth
harmonious grace
harrowing details
harsh jarrings
hasty generalization
hateful malignity
haughty composure
haunting despair
hazardous enterprise
hazy recollection
headlong vehemence
healthful vitality
heartfelt amity
heartless perfidy
heartrending outcry
hearty contempt
heated discussion
heathen hordes
heavenly ecstasies
heavy handicap
hectic tittering
hectoring rant
heedless love
heightened charm
heinous enormity
helpless innocence
herculean monster
hereditary arrogance
heretical opinions
hermetically sealed
heroic fortitude
hesitating courage
heterogeneous mass
hidden pitfalls
hideous phantom
high-flying theories
highly meritorious
hilarious outburst
hillside mist
hissing murmur
historic edifice
hoarded vengeance
hoary antiquity
hollow joys
homebred virtues
homeless wind
homely pathos
homespun play
homicidal mania
homogeneous whole
honest admiration
honeyed eloquence
hooligan wind
hopelessly befogged
horrible swiftness
horrid significance
hortatory moonshine
hospitable courtesy
hostile partizan
hot frenzy
hovering presence
howling chaos
huddled faculties
huge aspiration
human derelict
humanitarian impulse
humbly propitiating
humdrum inconsistencies
humid luster
humiliating discomfiture
humorless variety
humorous urbanity
hungry satisfaction
hurrying years
hurtful indulgence
hushed laughter
husky shrillness
hybrid emotions
hypnotic fascination
hypochondriacal terrors
hypocritical pretense
hysterical agitation
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Editor's note: This section of EnhanceMyVocabulary.com is excerpted and adapted from Project Gutenberg's Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases, by Greenville Kleiser.
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