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bring to life; narrate, relate, recite, give an account of, recount, retell, tell, romance; record, chronicle, portrayal, n. 1. portraying, drawing, representation, figuration. See portraiture (defs. 1, 2).
2. portrait, study, painting, sketch. See portrait (defs. 1, 2).
pose1, v. 1. affect, attitudinize, act, play to, make a show of; assume, put on airs, SI. put on the dog, profess; feign, pretend, fake, sham, go through the motions; bluff, deceive, dissemble, posture; show off, swank, be vain, talk big, boast.
2. model, sit, sit for, serve as a model or example.
3. place, arrange, put, position, locate; situate, seat, assign, allocate, dispose; set, lay, park, fix, establish, base; group, order, array, range, distribute; line up, align, file, space.
4. assert, propound, allege, postulate, predicate, posit; state, declare, say, pronounce; present, submit, broach, advance; aver, asseverate, affirm, avouch.
-n. 5. posture, stance, set, position, stand; bearing, poise, presence, carriage, demeanor, port; mien, look, face, visage, countenance; cast, attitude, air.
6. affectation, pretense, airs, airs and graces, SI. dog, mannerism, artifice; hypocrisy, crocodile tears, playacting; theatricality, histrionics, melodramatics; pretentiousness, artificiality, affectedness, tushery, magniloquence, preciosity, euphuism; ostentation, display, parade, pomp, pomposity, fanfaronade, exaggeration, Inf. front; foppery, peacockery, coxcombry, dandyism; modesty, mock modesty, prudery, sanctimony, demureness; quackery, charlatanism, humbug. pose2, v. baffle, stump, puzzle, confound, perplex, mystify; embarrass, nonplus, put out, bother, disconcert, discombobulate; confuse, dumfound, stagger; bewilder, muddle, addle the wits, Inf. flummox, poser, n. 1. model, sitter, subject, live model, nude model.
2. problem, question, vexed question, knotty point, knot, stickler, stumper; teaser, hard nut to crack, Inf. brainteaser, Inf braintwister; dilemma, enigma, perplexity, intricacy; puzzle, riddle, riddle-me-ree, conundrum, mystery, Chinese puzzle.
3. affecter, actor, pretender, mannerist. See poseur, poseur, n. affecter, poser, mannerist, attitudinizer, actor, posturer, performer, artist; hypocrite, flatterer, deceiver, bluffer, boaster; pretender, impostor, claimant, false claimant, empiric, masquerader; dandy, fop, coxcomb, peacock; quack, charlatan, mountebank, confidence man, SI. con man, SI. con artist, posh, adj. luxurious, deluxe, luxury, sumptuous, elegant, custom, special; grand, gorgeous, opulent, rich, lavish, elaborate; ornate, baroque, gingerbread, rococo, flowery, showy, florid; SI. classy, SI. snazzy, SI. ritzy, Inf swank, Inf. swanky; ostentatious, decorative, pretentious, overdone, embellished, posit, v. 1. place, put, set, position, dispose. See pose (def. 3).
2. postulate, assert, propound, predicate. See pose (def. 4).
-n. 3. assumption, postulate, predication; hypothesis, thesis, contention, assertion, allegation; conception, notion, thought, mind, belief, opinion.
position, n. 1. location, situation, placement, disposition, arrangement, order, array, assignment, collocation; placing, emplacement, localization, positioning, deposition; localizing, pinpointing, centering; establishment, settling, settlement; fixation, lodgment, installation, investiture, insertion.
2. site, place, situation, spot, locality; seat, stand, emplacement, point, bearings, latitude and longitude; scene, Law. venue, Latin, locus, Fr. lieu.
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