charade
n
1 charades [sing v]
game in which one team acts a series of little plays containing syllables of a word which the other team tries to guess 哑谜猜字游戏(一组进行若干短小的表演, 表示一字的各音节, 由另一组猜字).
2 [C] scene in a game of charades 这种游戏的表演.
3 [C] (fig 比喻) absurd and obvious pretence 荒唐可笑又显而易见的伪装.