charade vs feigning

charade and feigning both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
charade	Yes	No	No	No
feigning	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, feigning is a hypernym of charade; that is, feigning is a word with a broader meaning than charade:

Other hypernyms of charade include pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation.

charade (noun)	feigning (noun)
making a false outward show	the act of giving a false appearance
a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades	pretending with intention to deceive