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charade  (charades plural )
1  n-count If you describe someone's actions as a charade, you mean that their actions are so obviously false that they do not convince anyone. 
usu sing  (disapproval)  I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate charade..., The UN at the moment is still trying to maintain the charade of neutrality.  
2  n-uncount Charades is a game for teams of players in which one team acts a word or phrase, syllable by syllable, until other players guess the whole word or phrase. 



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