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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | carriage, manner of person |
| Synonyms: | actions, address, air, appearance, aspect, bearing, behavior, cast, comportment, conduct, demeanor, mien, port, posture, set, stance |
| Notes: | deportment adds the sense of action or activity to a mode of conduct or behavior; comportment ('behavior or bearing') does not have this |
| Main Entry: | guise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appearance, pretense |
| Synonyms: | air, aspect, behavior, cloak, color, cover, demeanor, disguise, disguisement, dress, facade, face, false front, false show, fashion, form, front, mask, mien, mode, pose, posture, role, seeming, semblance, shape, show, showing, simulacrum |
| Antonyms: | reality |
| Main Entry: | juncture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | turning point |
| Synonyms: | choice, circumstance, condition, contingency, crisis, crossroad, crux, emergency, exigency, instant, meeting point, moment, occasion, pass, pinch, plight, point, position, posture, predicament, quandary, state, status, strait, time, zero hour |
| Notes: | junction means the place where two or more things come together while juncture means an event that occurs at a critical time or point in time when a critical decision must be made |
| Main Entry: | mask |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false face, cover |
| Synonyms: | affectation, air*, appearance, aspect, beard, blind, camouflage, cloak*, concealment, cover-up, disguise, disguisement, dissembling, dissimulation, domino, facade, fig leaf, front, guise, hood, masquerade, pose, posture, pretense, pretext, put-on, screen, semblance, show*, simulation, veil*, veneer, visage, visor, window dressing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | masquerade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disguise |
| Synonyms: | attitudinize, dissemble, dissimulate, frolic, impersonate, mask, pass as, pass for, pass off, pose, posture, pretend, revel |
| Antonyms: | reveal, unmask |
| Main Entry: | mince |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pose, put on airs |
| Synonyms: | attitudinize, flounce, posture, prance, sashay, strut |
| Main Entry: | mode |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manner, way |
| Synonyms: | approach, book, channels, condition, course, custom, fashion, form, mechanism, method, modus, nuts and bolts, plan, posture, practice, procedure, process, quality, rule, situation, state, status, style, system, technique, tone, vein, wise |
| Main Entry: | phase |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period in life of something |
| Synonyms: | appearance, aspect, chapter, condition, development, facet, juncture, point, position, posture, stage, state, step, time |
| Notes: | to faze is to 'disconcert, embarrass'; phase as a verb is used with 'in' or 'out' to mean appear and disappear by stages |
| Main Entry: | pose |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | artificial position |
| Synonyms: | act, affectation, air, attitude, attitudinizing, bearing, carriage, facade, fake, false show, front, guise, mannerism, masquerade, mien, positure, posture, posturing, pretense, pretension, role, stance, stand |
| Antonyms: | movement |
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