[{"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to assume a particular attitude or stance, especially with the hope of impressing others:He likes to pose as an authority on literature.", "to present oneself insincerely:He seems to be posing in all his behavior.", "to assume or hold a physical attitude, as for an artistic purpose:to pose for a painter.Synonyms: model , sit"]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to place in a suitable position or attitude for a picture, tableau, or the like:to pose a group for a photograph.", "to assert, state, or put forward:That poses a difficult problem.", "to put or place."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a bodily attitude or posture:Her pose had a note of defiance in it.", "a mental attitude or posture:a pose cultivated by the upper classes.", "the act or period of posing, as for a picture.", "a position or attitude assumed in posing, or exhibited by a figure in a picture, sculptural work, tableau, or the like.", "a moment in which a dancer remains motionless, usually in an assumed posture.", "a studied attitude; affectation :His liberalism is merely a pose."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["Archaic.to perplex or baffle, as by a difficult question or problem.", "Obsolete.to examine by putting questions."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a movement in which the dancer steps, in any desired position, from one foot to the other with a straight knee onto the flat foot, demi-pointe, or pointe."]}]