The Clue
Sat for a portrait (5 letter answer)
The Answer
POSED
Tags
Notes
The answer POSED is uncommon, appearing about once every 400 puzzles.
Related Clues
Acted (as)
Attitudinized
Modeled
Propounded
Sat
Sat (for)
Artificial, in a way
Got shot
Not candid
Offered a puzzle
Presented, as a problem
Put forward
Set forth
Unnatural, in a way
Watched the birdie
Assumed a false identity
Got shot in a studio?
Prepared to be shot
Ready to say "cheese"
Sat for one's portrait
Threw out, as a question
Put forth a perplexing problem
Definition
POSE as a verb:
1. (present, pose) = introduce; "This poses an interesting question"
2. (model, pose, sit, posture) = assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
3. (pose, impersonate, personate) = pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
4. (pose, posture) = 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"
5. (put, set, place, pose, position, lay) = 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"
6. (perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound) = 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"
POSED as an adjective:
1. arranged for pictorial purposes