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| NOUN: | 1. Artificial behavior adopted to impress others: affectation, affectedness, air (used in plural), mannerism, pretense. See HONEST, TRUE. 2. The way in which one is placed or arranged: attitude, position, posture. See POSTURE. 3. The way in which a person holds or carries his or her body: attitude, carriage, posture, stance. See POSTURE. | | VERB: | 1. To behave affectedly or insincerely or take on a false or misleading appearance of: act, counterfeit, dissemble, fake, feign, play-act, pretend, put on, sham, simulate. See HONEST, TRUE. 2. To seek an answer to (a question): ask, put, raise. See ASK. 3. To assume a particular position, as for a portrait: posture, sit. See POSTURE. 4. To represent oneself in a given character or as other than what one is: attitudinize, impersonate, masquerade, pass, posture. Idioms: pass oneself off as. See HONEST. 5. To assume an exaggerated or unnatural attitude or pose: attitudinize, posture. Idioms: strike an attitude. See POSTURE. 6. To state, as an idea, for consideration: advance, offer, propose, propound, put forward, set forth, submit, suggest. See OFFER.
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