posing

Plural: posings

Noun

• (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait)
• The act by which something is posed.
• The act of one who poses or postures.
• The act of portraying oneself artificially, usually to make oneself appear grander or to fit in with the crowd; pretense

Verb

• introduce
• assume a posture as for artistic purposes
• pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions
• behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others
  • "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"
• put into a certain place or abstract location
• be a mystery or bewildering to
• present participle and gerund of pose

Synonyms

amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, impersonate, lay, model, mystify, nonplus, perplex, personate, place, pose, position, posture, present, put, puzzle, set, sit, sitting, stick, stupefy, vex