chpt 8 - 9 APLANG

Affable

Friendly; easy to get along with

Apocryphal

Of doubtful authenticity; not genuine

Cultivate

To help grow; nurture

Desultory

Moving from one thing to another in an unplanned way

Irascible

Easily angered; irritable

Loquacious

very talkative

Obtuse

Slow to understand; dull

Opaque

Difficult to understand or explain; obscure; incomprehensible

Paucity

A scarcity; an insufficiency

Recapitulate

To summarize or repeat briefly

Accolade

praise

Assuage

To relieve; lessen

Cacophony

Harsh, discordant sounds

Censure

Blame; a rebuke

Diatribe

A bitter, abusively critical speech or piece of writing; denunciation

Edifice

A building, especially of large, imposing size

Gravity

Severity; weighty importance

Infraction

Breaking a law or rule

Profane

Showing disrespect or contempt for sacred things; irrelevant

Somber

Solemn; sad and depressing; melancholy