pose

Noun

• a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display

• a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes

• affected manners intended to impress others
  • don't put on airs with me
    

Verb

• 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
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

• pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions
  • She posed as the Czar's daughter
    

• assume a posture as for artistic purposes
  • We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often
    

• introduce
  • This poses an interesting question
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  affectation , mannerism , affectedness , airs , perplex , vex , stick , get , puzzle , mystify , baffle , beat , bewilder , put , set , place , position , lay , posture , impersonate , personate , model , sit , present