poser

noun/ˈpoʊzər/

Frequency rank: #17,616 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

a difficult or puzzling question; also a person who poses or pretends.

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Example sentence

The interviewer threw out quite the poser at the end, asking where I saw myself in ten years.

Synonyms & related words

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