| A | B |
| obtuse | slow to understand; dull |
| affable | friendly; easy to get along with |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity; not genuine |
| desultory | moving from one thing to another in an unplanned way |
| recapitulate | to summarize or repeat briefly |
| irascible | easily angered; irritable |
| loquacious | very talkative |
| opaque | difficult to understand or explain; obscure; incomprehensible |
| paucity | a scarcity; an insufficiency |
| garbled | Mixed up to such an extent as to be misleading or incomprehensible |