12 short

Question 1

hauteur

Answer 1

haughtiness of manner; disdainful pride.

Question 2

hearken

Answer 2

listen: he refused to hearken to Thomas’s words of wisdom.

Question 3

hearten

Answer 3

make more cheerful or confident: [with object and infinitive] : she was heartened to observe that the effect was faintly comic | (as adjective heartening) : this is the most heartening news of all.

Question 4

heartrending

Answer 4

causing great sadness or distress.

Question 5

hedonism

Answer 5

the pursuit of pleasure; sensual self-indulgence.

Question 6

hew

Answer 6

1 [with object] chop or cut (something, especially wood) with an ax, pick, or other tool: we have finished hauling and hewing timber.
• (usually be hewn) make or shape (something) by cutting or chopping a material such as wood or stone: a seat hewn out of a fallen tree trunk.

2 [no object] (hew to) North American conform or adhere to: some artists took photographs that hewed to more traditional ideas of art.

Question 7

herald

Answer 7

noun
a person or thing viewed as a sign that something is about to happen: they considered the first primroses as the herald of spring.

verb [with object]
be a sign that (something) is about to happen: the speech heralded a change in policy.