charade

Why force myself to go through with this charade again?

It was a lot to glean from a round of charades.

Luckily, Penelope had always been good at charades, and she found she rather enjoyed the challenge.

At first, Mosley pretended like he was there to fix something, like the dishwasher or the refrigerator, but he eventually abandoned the charade, and now he just came over for lunch.

"The Saudi authorities continue to detain my sister while they persist in their charade of whitewashing their image and claiming to empower women in front of Western media," her sister Fawzia al-Otaibi told BBC Sport.