cha·rade 
(shə-rād)
(shə-rād)n.
1. Games
a. charades (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A game in which words or phrases are represented in pantomime, sometimes syllable by syllable, until they are guessed by the other players.
b. An episode in this game or a word or phrase so represented.
2. A readily perceived pretense; a travesty: went through the charade of a public apology.
[French, probably from Provençal charrado, chat, from charra, to chat, chatter, perhaps from Italian ciarlare.]
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