pose

Meanings

• affected manners intended to impress others
• a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes
• a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
• introduce
  • "This poses an interesting question"
• assume a posture as for artistic purposes
  • "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
• pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions
  • "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
• behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others
• put into a certain place or abstract location
• be a mystery or bewildering to

Synonyms

affectation, affectedness, 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, stick, stupefy, vex