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How to pronounce “charade”
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Pronunciation guide for charade
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of charade with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- A Moral Blueprint for Reimagining Capitalism
It’s not because stakeholder capitalism is a charade
- Definition summary
- (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.
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How to pronounce charade
A Moral Blueprint for Reimagining Capitalism
It’s not because stakeholder capitalism is a charade
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “charade”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (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.
- (uncommon) A single round of the game charades, an acted form of the earlier riddles.
- (obsolete) A play resembling the game charades, particularly due to poor acting.
- A deception or pretense, originally an absurdly obvious one but now in general use.
- (crosswording) A form of wordplay where several words are placed together to form a new word or part thereof.
- [Verb]
- To act out a charade (of); to gesture; to pretend.
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