pose

nouns

affected manners intended to impress others

"don't put on airs with me"

airs, pose

a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes

pose

is a type of (narrower)

the arrangement of the body and its limbs

"he assumed an attitude of surrender"

a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display

affectation, affectedness, mannerism, pose

introduce

"This poses an interesting question"

pose, present

assume a posture as for artistic purposes

"We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"

model, pose, posture, sit

is derived from

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pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions

"She posed as the Czar's daughter"

impersonate, personate, pose

is derived from

behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others

"Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"; "She postured and made a total fool of herself"

pose, posture

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"

lay, place, pose, position, put, set

be a mystery or bewildering to

"This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"

amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex

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