chapter 8 vocabulary .
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paucity .
a scarcity ; an insufficiency .
opaque .
difficult to understand or explain ; obscure ; incomprehensible .
irascible .
easily angered ; irritable .
affable .
friendly ; easy to get along with .
garbled .
mixed up to such an extent as to be misleading or incomprehensible .
desultory .
moving from one thing to another in an unplanned way .
apocryphal .
of doubtful authenticity ; not genuine .
obtuse .
slow to understand ; dull .
recapitulate .
to summarize or repeat briefly .
loquacious .
very talkative .