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What is the noun for charade?

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charade
  1. (literature, archaic) A genre of riddles where the clues to the answer are descriptions or puns on its syllables, with a final clue to the whole.
  2. (uncommon) A single round of the game charades, an acted form of the earlier riddles.
  3. (obsolete) A play resembling the game charades, particularly due to poor acting.
  4. A deception or pretense, originally an absurdly obvious one but now in general use.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “This budget is a pure charade with more hidden taxes than the publicised ones.”
      “Bring your food to the living room and have a snack over parlor games, like a round of charade with biblical characters.”
      “Will you drop this charade or am I going to have to shave you bald and put you out in the cold?”
charades
  1. plural of charade, particularly
    1. A game in which each player acts out a word or phrase, usually based on puns of each syllable and without speaking, for the others to guess.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I resorted to signs and gestures, in a peculiar multi-lingual game of charades.”
      “He played my life away like a game of charades behind the guise of immaturity and stupidity.”
      “Playing Cranium feels like playing charades, Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit, Name That Tune and hangman all at once.”
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