charade (charades plural )
1 n-count If you describe someone's actions as a charade, you mean that their actions are so obviously false that they do not convince anyone., (disapproval)
I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate charade...
2 n-uncount 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.