Which sentence uses "staid" correctly? A) Our staid coach surprised us with a joke that was totally out of character.

B)That recipe for lasagna was staid in its use of tomato sauce and cheese.

C) We received a staid amount of rain yesterday, nearly one full inch.

D) Wallace likes his staid hiking boots because they are wider than his last pair.

A) Our staid coach surprised us with a joke that was totally out of character

Explanation:

Although staid's denotative meaning is "sedate, respectable, and unadventurous," the word is often used to describe people who are stodgy or dull. If one was surprised by someone telling a joke, and calls that "out of character", then we can infer that that person was usually rather boring. Therefore, using context clues, we can infer that this is the correct use of staid.

"a" because he is appealing to logic as oppose to appealing to the audience's emotions.