pose

affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me"

a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes

a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display

introduce; "This poses an interesting question"

assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"

pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"

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"

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"

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"