TEAL Vocabulary Chapter 9

opaque

ADJ: difficult to understand or explain; obscure; incomprehensible

irascible

ADJ: easily angered; irritable

affable

ADJ: friendly; easy to get along with

garbled

ADJ: mixed up to such an extent as to be misleading or incomprehensible

desultory

ADJ: moving from one thing to another in an unplanned way

apocryphal

ADJ: of doubtful authenticity; not genuine

obtuse

ADJ: slow to understand; dull

loquacious

ADJ: very talkative

paucity

NOUN: a scarcity; an insufficiency

recapitulate

VERB: to summarize or repeat briefly