Words about words

lan Hazy means you can't see well, as if there is mist or smoke in the air.

People may say their vision is hazy when they feel tired or sick. The word is also used for ideas, like a hazy memory, meaning it is not clear.

You heave when you put a lot of effort into pulling or raising something. The sailor in the picture is heaving a rope.

Held is the past tense of hold.

You help someone when you give them what they need. You might help someone with their homework, or help someone build a fort. The man in the picture is helping the toddler climb the stairs.
A similar word to help is assist.

A person or a place is hick if they are not sophisticated, and are probably in a rural area.

Hid is the past tense of hide.

You hide when you don't want anyone to know where you are. A game where you take turns hiding and looking for other people is called hide and seek or hide and go seek.
The cat in the picture is hiding inside the rolled up mat.

You hire something or someone when you pay some money for them for a time. People are generally hired to work for you or to complete a particular task. When you hire something, you hire it to use it for a while and then you return it to where you hired it from.
The picture is of some bicycles for hire.

You hit something when you connect with it, hard. Some examples are hitting a nail with a hammer, hitting a ball with a bat or hitting a target with an arrow.

Something is hollow if is hard, but there is nothing inside. When you knock on something hollow it makes a different noise to knocking on something solid. Trees often become hollow if termites eat the center of them away.