Chapter 8 Vocab

paucity

A scarcity; lack; an insufficiency

opaque

difficult to understand or explain; obscure; incomprehensible

irascible

easily angered; irritable; bad-tempered

affable

friendly; easy to get along with; good-natured

desultory

moving from one thing to another in an unplanned way; random

apocryphal

of doubtful authenticity; not genuine; fictitious

obtuse

slow to understand; dull

cultivate

to help grow; nurture

recapitulate

to summarize; to repeat briefly

loquacious

very talkative