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neighbourly, friendly, benevolent: A reference book might be<br />

helpful in answering that question. Mrs Carlyle gave me such<br />

helpful advice.<br />

helping n. serving, portion, ration, plateful, Brit help, Colloq<br />

dollop: He has already asked for a third helping of potatoes.<br />

helpless adj. 1 dependent, vulnerable, weak, helpless, feeble, infirm,<br />

lame, crippled, disabled: The disease has left him completely<br />

helpless. 2 confused, baffled, mystified, bewildered,<br />

perplexed, at sea, confounded, muddled, nonplussed: I am<br />

completely helpless when it comes to balancing my accounts. 3<br />

weakened, weak, debilitated, faint, enfeebled, feeble, worn out,<br />

spent, exhausted, prostrate, enervated: All of us were simply<br />

helpless from laughing so much. 4 worthless, incapable,<br />

incompetent, useless, unavailing, inefficient, inept, unfit,<br />

unqualified: Dali was said to be helpless without Gala to<br />

manage his affairs.<br />

helter-skelter<br />

adj. 1 disorderly, disorganized, confused, muddled, haphazard,<br />

careless, jumbled, random, topsy-turvy, Colloq<br />

higgledy-piggledy: How can one find anything in this<br />

helter-skelter mess?<br />

--adv. 2 confusedly, pell-mell, in all directions, recklessly,<br />

unsystematically, chaotically, erratically, aimlessly, US every<br />

which way, Colloq higgledy-piggledy: When the giant appeared,<br />

the children ran away, helter-skelter.<br />

hence adv. 1 therefore, consequently, thus, accordingly, ergo, as a<br />

result, for that or this reason: She has homework to do, hence<br />

cannot go to the cinema. 2 away, from here or this place: Get<br />

thee hence, you wicked witch! 3 from now, in the future: Where<br />

will I be two years hence?<br />

henceforth<br />

adv. hereafter, henceforward, from now on, Colloq US from here<br />

on out: Henceforth, make no more personal remarks.<br />

henchman n. (fellow-) mobster or gangster or hoodlum, gangster,<br />

bodyguard, myrmidon, right-hand man, associate, attendant,<br />

follower, supporter, confidant, crony, Colloq sidekick,

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