poser

noun/ˈpoʊzər/

Frequency rank: #17,616 most common English word

Meaning

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

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Example sentence

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

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