charade
noun/ʃəˈrɑːd/
/ʃəˈreɪd/
- [countable] a situation in which people pretend that something is true when it clearly is not synonym pretence
- Their whole marriage had been a charade—they had never loved each other.
- charade of (doing) something We had to go through this whole charade of holding auditions for the part.
Extra Examples- I suggest you give up this little charade of yours.
- She struggled to maintain the charade of not being afraid.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- elaborate
- ridiculous
- little
- …
- continue
- go along with
- go through
- …
- charade of
- charades[uncountable] 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.
Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French, from modern Provençal charrado ‘conversation’, from charra ‘chatter’, perhaps of imitative origin.
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