Vocab Chapter 8

paucity

a scarcity; an insufficiency

opaque

difficult to understand or explain; obscure; incomprehensible

irascible

easily angered, irritable

affable

friendly; easy to get along with

desultory

moving from one thing to another in an unplanned way

apocryphal

of doubtful authenticity; not genuine

obtuse

slow to understand; dull

cultivate

to help grow; nurture

recapitulate

to summarize or repeat briefly

loquacious

very talkative