pon-, posit-, pos-, -poning, -poned, -ponency, -ponent, -ponement, -pound

1. Someone who pretends to be another person in order to deceive others.
2. A person who practices deception under an assumed character, identity, or name.
3. Anyone who engages in deception under an assumed name or identity.
4. Etymology: from about 1586, from Middle French imposteur, from Late Latin impostorem, impostor; from impostus, collateral form of impositus; past participle of imponere, "place upon, impose upon, deceive"; from in-, "in" + ponere, "to put, to place". Imposture, "act of willfully deceiving others" was first recorded in 1537.

1. The act of pretending to be somebody else in order to trick people, or an occasion on which this is done.
2. The act or instance of engaging in deception under an assumed name or identity.
3. The action or practice of imposing fraudulently upon others.
4. Deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition practiced by a false pretender.

1. To place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast; or in juxtaposition; often followed by with: "The book was juxtaposed with the dictionary."
2. To place two or more things together, especially in order to suggest a link between them or to emphasize the contrast between them.

1. Placed side by side.
2. Having been placed in juxtaposition.

To put or to place by the side of or near something; to juxtaposition something.

1. An act or instance of placing close together or side by side; especially, for comparison or contrast.
2. The state of being close together or side by side.
3. The act of positioning close together or side by side.

1. To act against or provide resistance to; to combat.
2. To stand in the way of; to hinder; to obstruct.
3. To set as an opponent or an adversary.
4. To be hostile or adverse to, as in opinion: "He opposed a resolution in the proposal."
5. To set as an obstacle or a hindrance.