Mastering Vocabulary Chapter 8

Which word best describes a person who is easy to speak to and friendly?

• irascible

• affable

• obtuse

• loquacious

What term is used to describe stories or statements of doubtful authenticity, though widely circulated as being true?

• affable

• recapitulate

• apocryphal

• desultory

Which word means to develop or improve by education or training?

• cultivate

• opaque

• paucity

• irascible

How would you describe a conversation that jumps from one topic to another in a random, scattered fashion?

• loquacious

• obtuse

• desultory

• affable

Which word best describes someone who is easily provoked to anger?

• affable

• irascible

• loquacious

• obtuse

Who is most likely to be described as loquacious?

• A person who speaks very little

• A person who is difficult to understand

• A person who talks a great deal

• A person who is unfriendly

Which word best describes someone who is not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect?

• affable

• obtuse

• irascible

• loquacious

What does the term "opaque" best describe?

• someone easily angered

• something difficult to understand

• someone friendly

• something easily understood

Which word refers to the presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts?

• paucity

• affable

• desultory

• cultivate

What does it mean to recapitulate?

• To argue

• To summarize and state again the main points of

• To cultivate

• To become less friendly