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| Main Entry: | pose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sit, stand in place |
| Synonyms: | arrange, model, poise, position, posture, strut, peacock, sit for, strike a pose |
| Antonyms: | go, move |
| Main Entry: | pose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend, fake |
| Synonyms: | act, affect, feign, grandstand*, impersonate, make believe, masquerade, pass off*, posture, profess, purport, sham*, show off*, attitudinize, make out like, peacock*, playact, put on airs, put up a front, strike an attitude, take off as |
| Antonyms: | be genuine |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | offer, put forward idea |
| Synonyms: | advance, ask, extend, give, hold out, prefer, present, proffer, propose, proposition, put, query, question, set, state, submit, suggest, tender, posit, propound |
| Antonyms: | withhold |
| Main Entry: | acting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertaining, performing |
| Synonyms: | assuming, depiction, enactment, histrionics, imitating, imitation, impersonation, improvisation, mime, mimicry, performance, portrayal, pretending, pretense, rendition, seeming, theatre, characterization, dramatics, dramatizing, enacting, feigning, hamming, pantomime, play acting, playing, portraying, posing, posturing, putting, showing off, simulating, stagecraft, stooging, theatricals |
| Main Entry: | pretense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | falsehood, affected show; cover |
| Synonyms: | act, acting, affectation, appearance, artifice, charade, claim, cloak, deceit, deception, display, double-dealing*, evasion, excuse, fabrication, facade, gag, guise, insincerity, invention, make-believe, mask, masquerade, misrepresentation, misstatement, ostentation, pretext, routine, ruse, semblance, sham*, simulation, stall, stunt, subterfuge, trickery, veil, veneer, wile, dissimulation, dumb act, fakery, faking, falsification, feigning, posing, posturing, pretentiousness, schtick, shuffling |
| Antonyms: | honesty, reality, truth, openness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | confound |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | confuse |
| Synonyms: | abash, amaze, astonish, astound, baffle, bewilder, blend, bug*, commingle, confute, discomfit, discountenance, dumbfound, embarrass, faze, fiddle, flabbergast, jumble, mix, mix up*, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, rattle, screw up*, startle, surprise, throw*, befog, discombobulate, metagrobolize, misidentify |
| Antonyms: | clarify, clear up, enlighten, explain, relate, make clear |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | extend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | offer |
| Synonyms: | accord, advance, allocate, allot, award, bestow, confer, donate, give, grant, hold out, impart, pose, present, proffer, submit, tender, yield, bring forward, place at disposal, put forth, put forward, reach out, stretch out |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep, maintain, take back |
| Main Entry: | give |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demonstrate, proffer |
| Synonyms: | administer, bestow, confer, dispense, display, evidence, extend, furnish, hold out, indicate, issue, manifest, minister, offer, pose, present, produce, provide, put on, render, return, show, tender, yield, set forth |
| Antonyms: | keep |
| Main Entry: | masquerade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disguise |
| Synonyms: | dissemble, dissimulate, frolic, impersonate, mask, pass off, pose, posture, pretend, revel, attitudinize, pass as, pass for |
| Antonyms: | reveal, unmask |
| Main Entry: | offer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | present, propose for acceptance |
| Synonyms: | accord, advance, afford, allow, award, be at service, bid, come forward, display, donate, exhibit, extend, furnish, give, grant, hold out, lay at one's feet, make available, move, place at disposal, ply, pose, press, proffer, propound, provide, put forth, put forward, put on the market, put up, put up for sale, sacrifice, show, submit, suggest, tender, volunteer |
| Antonyms: | take, take back, withdraw, withhold |
| Main Entry: | perplex |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | confuse, mix up |
| Synonyms: | astonish, astound, baffle, balk, befuddle, beset, bewilder, complicate, confound, discompose, dumbfound, encumber, entangle, fog, involve, jumble, muck, muddle, mystify, nonplus, perturb, pose, puzzle, rattle, ravel, stumble, stump, surprise, tangle, thicken, thwart, buffalo, discombobulate, get to*, muddy the waters, snarl up |
| Antonyms: | clarify, clear up, enlighten, explain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | posture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | display an attitude |
| Synonyms: | affect, display, fake, masquerade, pass off, pose, show off*, attitudinize, do a bit, do for effect, fake it, make a show, pass for, playact, put on airs, put up a front |
| Antonyms: | be truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prefer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | favor; single out |
| Synonyms: | adopt, advance, aggrandize, choose, cull, desire, elect, elevate, fancy, finger, go for, incline, mark, pick, place, pose, present, promote, proposition, put, raise, select, suggest, tag, take, tap, upgrade, wish, be partial to, be turned on to, fix upon, like better, opt for, optate, propone, propound, put forward, would rather, would sooner |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, reject, spurn |
| Main Entry: | present |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | introduce; demonstrate |
| Synonyms: | acquaint, adduce, advance, allege, cite, declare, display, do, exhibit, expose, expound, extend, fix up, get together, give, hold out, imply, infer, intimate, lay, manifest, mount, offer, perform, pitch, pose, produce, proffer, proposition, put on, raise, recount, relate, show, stage, state, submit, suggest, tender, trot out, do the honors, give an introduction, make a pitch, make known, open to view, put forward, roll out |
| Antonyms: | refrain, subdue, withhold |
| Main Entry: | pretend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | play the part of |
| Synonyms: | act, imagine, imitate, impersonate, make believe, make up, masquerade, mimic, play, portray, pose, purport, put on an act*, represent, reproduce, suppose, assume the role, make as if, make out like, playact, put on a front, put on airs |
| Notes: | portend means to indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future or to foreshadow or to bode; pretend means to make believe with the intent to deceive or to give a false appearance of |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | proffer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suggest, offer |
| Synonyms: | extend, gift, give, hand, hold out, pose, present, propose, proposition, submit, tender, volunteer, hit on, make a pitch, propound |
| Antonyms: | discourage, dissuade, take back |
| Main Entry: | propose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suggest, present for action |
| Synonyms: | adduce, advance, advise, affirm, ask, assert, broach, come up with*, contend, counsel, hit on*, hold out, introduce, invite, kibitz, lay before, lay on the line, make a motion, make a pitch, move for, name, nominate, offer, pose, prefer, press, proffer, propone, proposition, propound, put forward, put to, put up, recommend, request, set forth, solicit, speak one's piece, spitball, state, submit, tender, urge, volunteer |
| Antonyms: | condemn, deny, oppose, refuse, reject |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | proposition |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make suggestion, often improper |
| Synonyms: | accost, approach, ask, pose, prefer, propose, put, solicit, suggest, propound |
| Main Entry: | put |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | propose; express in words |
| Synonyms: | advance, air, couch, express, formulate, forward, give, offer, phrase, pose, prefer, present, proposition, render, set, state, submit, suggest, tender, translate, transpose, turn, utter, vent, ventilate, word, bring forward, posit, propone, propound, set before |
| Main Entry: | put on |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pretend |
| Synonyms: | act, affect, assume, bluff, confound, confuse, counterfeit, deceive, don, fake, feign, make believe, masquerade, pose, pull, put on an act, sham, simulate, strike, take on, trick, playact, put on a front |
| Antonyms: | be truthful |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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