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 The current phrasing (as of this comment) is ""assume the visage"".  It just doesn't sound right to me.  It's not an assumption, it's an affectation, and none of the proposed synonyms really have the same connotation.  Maybe we could reword it so the sentence can use the noun ""affectation"" (an unambiguous word) instead of the verb ""affect""?   "