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Charade

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Noun

1. burlesque, charade, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty

a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way

2. charade

a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Charade

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noun
1. 
an episode or act in the game of charades
2. mainly British
an absurd act; travesty

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Charade

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noun
1. 
a word or phrase acted out or described as in verse, for others to guess
2.  [pl.]
a game in which two teams compete to see which can most quickly guess a group of words or phrases chosen by the other team and acted out in pantomime, often syllable by syllable, by the members of their own
3. 
a pretense or fiction that can be seen through readily; travesty

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Charade

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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.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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