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Affected manners intended to impress others Don't put on airs with me |
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A posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes |
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A deliberate pretense or exaggerated display |
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Introduce This poses an interesting question |
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Assume a posture as for artistic purposes We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often |
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Pretend to be someone you are not Sometimes with fraudulent intentions She posed as the Czar's daughter |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
noun | airs, affectedness |
noun | position, posture, attitude |
noun | affectation, mannerism, affectedness, pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning |
verb | present, constitute, represent, make up, comprise, be |
verb | model, sit, posture, expose, exhibit, display |
verb | impersonate, personate, deceive, betray, lead astray
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verb | posture, behave, acquit, bear, deport, conduct, comport, carry |
verb | put, set, place, position, lay, move, displace |
verb | perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound, confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate |