Choose the meaning of the bold word based on this sentence in F451: "With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black."

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Sariah Keller

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28 March, 18:38

Choose the meaning of the bold word based on this sentence in F451: "With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black."

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Carolina Brown · Answer 1

"With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black."

Stolid, the bold word based on this sentence in f451 place means:

Steady, calmed, dependable, of little emotion, or low animation.

Explanation:

Stolid is an adjective word to qualify or assign a characteristic to a subject. The characteristic it provides is of a steady, calmed, or low animated object. It comes from Latin stolidus and french stolide which means obsolete in french and insensible or slow in Latin. In other words, is something that won't move fast and that will remain steady due to its nature.