charade
/ʃəˈɹeɪd/noun
A genre of riddles where the clues to the answer are descriptions or puns on its syllables, with a final clue to the whole.
Example sentence
- “This whole charade is absurd.”
Featured as word of the day on July 5, 2028.
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