/ʃəˈreɪd/
cha·rade
BrE /ʃəˈrɑːd/
NAmE /ʃəˈreɪd/
[C]
a situation in which people pretend that sth is true when it clearly is not
SYN pretence
Their whole marriage had been a charade—they had never loved each other.
charades [U]
a game in which one player acts out the syllables of a word or title and the other players try to guess what it is
Let’s play charades.