Noun

• S: (n) airs (airs%1:07:00::), pose (pose%1:07:00::) (affected manners intended to impress others) "don't put on airs with me"
• S: (n) pose (pose%1:07:01::) (a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes)
• S: (n) affectation (affectation%1:04:00::), mannerism (mannerism%1:04:00::), pose (pose%1:04:00::), affectedness (affectedness%1:04:00::) (a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display)

Verb

• S: (v) present (present%2:42:00::), pose (pose%2:42:00::) (introduce) "This poses an interesting question"
• S: (v) model (model%2:39:01::), pose (pose%2:39:00::), sit (sit%2:39:00::), posture (posture%2:39:00::) (assume a posture as for artistic purposes) "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
• S: (v) pose (pose%2:32:13::), impersonate (impersonate%2:32:00::), personate (personate%2:32:00::) (pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions) "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
• S: (v) pose (pose%2:41:00::), posture (posture%2:41:00::) (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"
• S: (v) put (put%2:35:00::), set (set%2:35:00::), place (place%2:35:00::), pose (pose%2:35:02::), position (position%2:35:00::), lay (lay%2:35:01::) (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"
• S: (v) perplex (perplex%2:31:00::), vex (vex%2:31:02::), stick (stick%2:31:00::), get (get%2:31:10::), puzzle (puzzle%2:31:00::), mystify (mystify%2:31:00::), baffle (baffle%2:31:00::), beat (beat%2:31:00::), pose (pose%2:31:09::), bewilder (bewilder%2:31:00::), flummox (flummox%2:31:00::), stupefy (stupefy%2:31:00::), nonplus (nonplus%2:31:00::), gravel (gravel%2:31:00::), amaze (amaze%2:31:01::), dumbfound (dumbfound%2:31:00::) (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"