If you describe someone's actions as a charade, you mean that their actions are so obviously false that they do not convince anyone.
例句
I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate charade...我不明白，他为什么要大费周章，装腔作势。The UN at the moment is still trying to maintain the charade of neutrality.联合国眼下还在努力摆出一副中立的假面孔。
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看手势猜字谜游戏
Charades is a game for teams of players in which one team acts a word or phrase, syllable by syllable, until other players guess the whole word or phrase.
例句
She and her three brothers played charades.她和3个兄弟玩看手势猜字谜。