Assert and Pose

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

noun

• Affected manners intended to impress others.
  • usage: "don't put on airs with me"
  • synonyms: airs
• A posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes.
• A deliberate pretense or exaggerated display.
  • synonyms: affectation, mannerism, affectedness

verb

• Introduce.
  • usage: "This poses an interesting question"
  • synonyms: present
• Assume a posture as for artistic purposes.
  • usage: "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
  • synonyms: model, sit, posture
• Pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions.
  • usage: "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
  • synonyms: impersonate, personate
• Behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others.
  • usage: "Don't pay any attention to him-he is always posing to impress his peers"; "She postured and made a total fool of herself"
  • synonyms: posture
• Put into a certain place or abstract location.
  • usage: "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
  • synonyms: put, set, place, position, lay
• Be a mystery or bewildering to.
  • usage: "This beats me"; "Got me-I don't know the answer"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
  • synonyms: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound

• (n.) A cold in the head; catarrh.
• (v.i.) To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as a prude.
• (v.t.) To interrogate; to question.
• (v.t.) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a sitter for a portrait.
• (a.) Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse or other beast.
• (v.t.) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.
• (v.t.) The attitude or position of a person; the position of the body or of any member of the body; especially, a position formally assumed for the sake of effect; an artificial position; as, the pose of an actor; the pose of an artist's model or of a statue.