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Charades

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Noun

1. charades

player acts out a phrase for others to guess

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Charades

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noun
(functioning as singular)
a parlour game in which one team acts out each syllable of a word, the other team having to guess the word

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Charades

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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.

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