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(verb) pretend to be someone you are not; with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" |
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Synonyms: impersonate, personate |
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Related Words: betray, deceive, lead astray, masquerade |
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(verb) behave affectedly in order to impress others |
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Related Words: acquit, attitudinise, attitudinize, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport |
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(verb) direct or put; seek an answer to: "ask a question"; "pose a problem to one's students" |
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Synonyms: ask |
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Related Words: articulate, formulate, phrase, word |
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(verb) place casually; "The cat draped herself on the sofa" |
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Synonyms: drape |
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Related Words: arrange, set up |
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(verb) pretend to be someone or something else |
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Synonyms: masquerade |
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Related Words: act, play, represent |
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(verb) as for artistic purposes |
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Synonyms: model, posture, sit |
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Related Words: display, exhibit, expose, ramp |
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(verb) introduce; "This poses an interesting question" |
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Synonyms: present |
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Related Words: be, comprise, constitute, make up, represent |
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(noun) affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me" |
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Synonyms: airs |
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Related Words: affectedness |
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(noun) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display |
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Synonyms: affectation, mannerism |
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Related Words: attitude, feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation |
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(verb) place firmly |
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Synonyms: deposit, fix, posit, situate |
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Related Words: bury, lay, place, pose, position, put, set |
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(verb) put into a certain place: "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the mising children"; also with abstract objects and locations: "Place emphasis on a certain point" |
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Synonyms: lay, place, position, put, set |
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Related Words: appose, arrange, barrel, bed, bottle, bucket, butt, clap, cock, coffin, cram, deposit, displace, docket, ensconce, fix, garner, glycerolize, ground, instal, install, intersperse, jar, juxtapose, lay, lay over, lean, load, lose, marshal, middle, mislay, misplace, move, parallelize, park, perch, pillow, pitch, place down, place upright, plant, poise, pose, posit, position, put back, put down, put forward, put in, rack up, recess, replace, repose, reposition, rest, seat, seed, set, set down, set up, settle, settle down, shelve, sign, sit, sit down, situate, sough, sow, space, stand, stand up, stick, store, stow, superimpose, tee, tee up, throw |
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