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The Learning Kingdom's Cool Word of the Day for March 11, 1999
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stolid [adj. STOH-lid]
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Someone who is stolid is unemotional, impassive, and unreactive. "He
was a gruff, stolid farmer from the Northeast."
The word sounds like a combination of solid and still, and stolid
people might seem to show the same combination of traits. Of those
similar sounding words, still is from the same root, the ancient
stel-.
The root stel- has given us words relating to holding, standing,
supporting, locating, and putting. It led to stolid through the Latin
stolidus (unmoving, stupid). It also branched into many variants,
including these:
still: unmoving
stall: a compartment, booth, or cubicle
stall: to prevent further progress or come to a stop
stalk: part of a plant that supports leaves, flowers, and fruit
stilts: two poles with foot rests, for walking above the ground
forestall: to delay, hinder, or prevent
installment: a regularly presented part of a series
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