(~s)
1.
If you describe someone’s actions as a ~, you mean that their actions are so obviously false that they do not convince anyone.
I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate ~...
The UN at the moment is still trying to maintain the ~ of neutrality.
N-COUNT: usu sing disapproval
2.
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.
N-UNCOUNT