[stol-id]

Adjective

Not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.

While she was stolid, he could not impress her.

[mer-kyoo[image]r-ee-uh[image]l]

Adjective

Liable to sudden, unpredictable change.

He was of a mercurial nature.

[os-uh-fahy]

Verb

To become like bone.

All that we profess to do is but this,—to find out the secrets of the human frame; to know why the parts ossify and the blood stagnates, and to apply continual preventives to the effects of time.

[ig-zig-yoo-uh[image]s]

Adjective

Meager or small.

David was ready to be promoted and deviate from his exiguous income.

[pen-juh-luh[image]s]

Adjective

Having branches or flower heads that bend downward.

Weeping birch-trees, when grafted on the common variety, do not acquire a perfect pendulous habit until they grow old.