Pose

[n] a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
[n] affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me"
[v] be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"
[v] pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
[v] put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
[v] as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
[v] behave affectedly in order to impress others; "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"
[v] introduce; "This poses an interesting question"

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Synonyms

affectation, airs, amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, impersonate, lay, mannerism, model, mystify, nonplus, perplex, personate, place, position, posture, present, put, puzzle, set, sit, stupefy, vex

Related Terms

act, acting, action, actions, activity, acts, address, advance, affectation, affectedness, air, airs, appearance, arrange, ask, assert, attitude, attitudinarianism, attitudinize, attitudinizing, bearing, beck, beckon, befog, behavior, behavior pattern, be