chapter 8. Ten words in context
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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; to repeat briefly
loquacious
very talkative
