charade
/ʃəˈɹeɪd/ noun C2- A single round of the game charades, an acted form of the earlier riddles.
- A deception or pretense, originally an absurdly obvious one but now in general use. · This whole charade is absurd.
- A form of wordplay where several words are placed together to form a new word or part thereof.
Plural charades
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