1 [C] a situation or event that is clearly false but in which people pretend to do or be sth 显而易见的伪装: They pretend to be friends but it's all a charade. Everyone knows they hate each other. 他们表面上是朋友，可都是做给别人看。谁都知道他们憎恨对方。

2 charades [U] a party game in which people try to guess the title of a book, film, etc that one person must represent using actions but not words 哑谜猜字游戏（一方用操作表示某本书、某部电影等的名字，另一方猜出字谜）