charade
Other forms: charades
A charade is something done just for show. Your devotion to vegetarianism would be a charade if you actually ate cheeseburgers when no one was looking.
When you want things to appear different than they really are, you might be tempted to put on a charade, like a charade of happiness when you are really feeling down. Charade is also the name for a silently-acted clue in the game called Charades — which originally wasn't silent. It used indirect descriptions of the words.
-
a word acted out in an episode of a gametype of:worda unit of language that native speakers can identify
-
a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous waytype of:caricature, imitation, impersonationa representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect
- MLA
- APA
- Chicago
Vocabulary lists containing charade
A magician makes a monkey disappear, but that is not the reason for the adjective "stolen" in the title of Liliana Heker's short story. Find the words in this list that could describe a joyous birthday party (which ends up being ruined for the main character). Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 9 Unit 2's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Fire and Ice, The Gift of the Magi, The Stolen Party, The Cask of Amontillado, A Poison Tree, Tim Burton, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Regan Fitz and Elliot Mason are teenage Glitchers — time travelers trained to protect the past and future from changes in history. After they find a letter from Regan’s future self, the two must work together to stop an impending disaster that threatens everyone’s future.
In this fifth and final book of the series The Trials of Apollo, Lester must defeat Nero without causing massive collateral damage to Manhattan.