pretense vs charade

pretense and charade both are nouns.

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

As nouns, charade is a hyponym of pretense; that is, charade is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than pretense:

Other hyponyms of pretense include appearance, show, make-believe, pretend, affectation, affectedness, mannerism, pose, masquerade.

pretense (noun)	charade (noun)
the act of giving a false appearance	making a false outward show
a false or unsupportable quality	a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades
an artful or simulated semblance
imaginative intellectual play
pretending with intention to deceive