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Word Unit: Homonyms, Homographs, and Homophones (confusion that sometimes exists because of spelling and sounds of words).

Word Unit: Homophones and Homonyms, Explained and Demonstrated .

Word Unit: honor-, hono-, honest- (Latin: honor, honesty).

Word Unit: hor-, horr- + (Latin: bristling, roughness, rudeness, shaking, trembling).

Word Unit: horme- (Greek: from ancient Greek hormáein [hormein], "to set in motion, impel, urge on").

Word Unit: hormo-, hormono- + (Greek: to rouse or to set in motion).

Word Unit: horo-, hour- + (Greek > Latin: hour, time; period of time, season, any limited time).

Word Unit: hort- (Latin: to encourage, to urge).

Word Unit: horti- + (Latin: a garden, of a garden, a gardener; enclosed space, enclosure).

Word Unit: hospit-, hosp-, host- ¹ (Latin: guest, host ).

Word Unit: hosti-, host-² (Latin: enemy).

Word Unit: hubris- + (Greek: wanton violence, riotousness, insolence; outrage; arrogance).

Word Unit: Human Body: An Introduction (The human body is at the edge of human comprehension with its microcosmic mysteries and its 100 trillion cells!).

Word Unit: Human Body: ID-Implants (electronic chips are being placed under the skins of people and animals).

Word Unit: Human Body: Keeping Good Brains from Going Bad (Trying to find solutions to two life-robbing diseases: Alzheimer's and Parkinson's).

Word Unit: humero-, humer- (Latin: shoulder, upper arm; pertaining to the bone that extends from the shoulder to the elbow).

Word Unit: humid-, humor- + (Latin: moist, wet [The correct spelling of the Latin origins is umor, umere, umidus. The spelling with the initial h is a result of folk (false) etymology, which associated these words with Latin humus, "earth"]).

Related "jest; joke; wit; humor; funny" word units: faceti-; farc-; jocu-; lud-; satir-.

Word Unit: humus, hum- (Latin: earth, ground, soil).

Word Unit: hyalo-, hyal- (Greek: glass, glassy; transparent; pertaining to the vitreous humor or surrounding membrane).

Word Unit: hydat- + (Greek: water).

Cross references of word families that refer to "water": aqua-; hydro-; hygro-.

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