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adj. Assured; composed.

adj. Held balanced or steady in readiness: stood poised for the jump.

adj. Possessing poise, having self-confidence.

adj. Ready, prepared.

adj. in full control of your faculties

adj. marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action

"And if the cover art foreshadows the style of this gargantuan cotton-candy novel, the title poised between horse and skyline suggests the allusive, striving nature of the themes to come: Shakespeare's romance of resurrection will be only the most conspicuous swatch in a patchwork of Renaissance fairy tale, Victorian saga, Vonnegutian fable, and dreamy surrealism in the Latin American manner."

poised    poises    poising   

unit of viscosity    position    pose    put    set    lay    place    equilibrium    calm    equanimity   

centipoise   

weight    gravity    heaviness    equipoise    balance    equilibrium    rest    counterweight    counterpoise    counterbalance   

Eloise    Illinois    Moise    Noyes    annoys    boys    boyz    deploys    destroys    employs   

composure    self-control    tact    firmness    self-confidence    gentleness    self-assurance    dignity    quickness    self-possession