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12th #8a

Castle Senior English SAT vocabulary #8

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apocryphal adj. Of questionable authorship or authenticity. Erroneous; fictitious adv a•poc'ry•phal•ly
desultory adj. Having no set plan; haphazard or random. Moving or jumping from one thing to another; disconnected. adv. desultorily n. desultoriness
loquacious adj.Very talkative; garrulous. adv -ly n. -ness
affable adj. Easy and pleasant to speak to; approachable. Friendly; easy to get along with. n. affability adv. affably
irascible adj.Easily angered; irritable. Prone to outbursts of temper. n. irascibility or irascibleness adv. irascibly
obtuse adj.,-tus•er,-tus•est Lacking quickness of perception or intellect. Not distinctly felt. Not sharp, pointed, or acute in form; blunt. Difficult to understand or explain; obscure; incomprehensible. adv. obtusely n. obtuseness
recapitulate v., -lat•ed, -lat•ing, -lates To summarize or repeat in concise form. v.tr. To repeat v.intr. To make a summary. adj. recapitulative or recapitulatory
opaque adj. Impenetrable by light; neither transparent nor translucent. So obscure as to be unintelligible. Obtuse of mind; dense. Slow to understand; dull. adv. opaquely n. opaqueness
paucity n. A scarcity; an insufficiency.
garbled tr.v, -bled, -bling, -bles. Mixed up to such an extent as to be misleading or incomprehensible. n. The act or an instance of garbling. garbler
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