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steely (STEE lee) (adjective)
1. Resembling steel, as in color or hardness: "His eyes were a steely blue suggesting a personality of determination and drive."
2. Being very strong and determined often in a cold or unfriendly way: "She gave him a steely look when he tried to talk to her."

"He had a steely determination to succeed."

stele (STEE lee) (noun)
An upright stone or slab with an inscribed or sculptured surface, used as a monument or as a commemorative tablet in the face of a building: "The builders included a stele on the front of the building near the main entrance."

The ancient stele that was erected in the farmer's field often tripped visitors prompting steely looks from them.

stele, stela
1. An upright slab bearing sculptured designs or inscriptions. Sometimes loosely applied to any prepared surface on the face of a building, a rock, etc., covered with an inscription.
2. In architecture: a prepared surface on the face of a building, a rock, etc., bearing an inscription or the like.
3. In ancient Rome: a burial stone.
4. In botany, a bulky strand or cylinder of vascular tissue contained in the stems and roots of plants, developed from plerome (the core or central part of an apical [tip, summit] meristem [tissue formed at growing points]).
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(Greek: an inscribed stone slab; a block of stone, gravestone; a column, a pillar [also a reference to certain plant structures])