Word of the day - May 21 2009

immure \ih-MYUR\, verb:

1. To enclose within walls, or as if within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate.
2. To build into a wall.
3. To entomb in a wall.

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fey \FAY\, adjective:
1. Possessing or displaying a strange and otherworldly aspect or quality; magical or fairylike; elfin.
2. Having power to see into the future; visionary; clairvoyant.
3. Appearing slightly crazy, as if under a spell; touched.
4. (Scots.) Fated to die; doomed.
5. (Scots.) Marked by a sense of approaching death.

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stolid \STOL-id\, adjective:
Meaning:
Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily excited.
Origin:
1590–1600; < L stolidus inert, dull, stupid
Synonyms:
apathetic, lethargic, phlegmatic.

Stolid derives from Latin stolidus, "unmoving, stupid."