A kangaroo word is a word that contains all the letters - in correct order - of one of its synonyms, like a kangaroo mama carries a joey her pouch. For example, the word catacomb contains a joey word tomb and the word infuriated contains irate.
Some kangaroo words have twin joeys, like lonely that contains one and only.
There are also grand kangaroos because their joey words contain joeys of their own, like expurgate containing purge that , in its turn, contains pure.
Here is a list of a few kangeroo words and their joeys:
- amicable amiable
- blossom bloom
- chocolate cocoa
- chicken hen
- deceased dead
- exist is
- falsified lied
- honourable noble
- isolate sole
- joined one
- latest last
- masculine male
- observe see
- precipitation rain
- quiescent quiet
- respite rest
- shadowy shady
- transgression sin
- unanimity unity
- variegated varied
- weakening waning
- yearning yen
Here are some kangaroo words for you to work out:
astound, barren, charisma, deception, encourage, evacuate, fabrication, insignia, myself, obligated, partially, rapscallion, rotund, scrub, stealthy, tracked, truthfully, unsightly.
Answers:
˙ʎlƃn - ʎlʇɥƃᴉsun 'ʎlnɹʇ - ʎllnɟɥʇnɹʇ 'pǝɔɐɹʇ - pǝʞɔɐɹʇ 'ʎls -ʎɥʇlɐǝʇs 'qnɹ - qnɹɔs 'punoɹ - punʇoɹ 'lɐɔsɐɹ - uoᴉllɐɔsdɐɹ 'ʎlʇɹɐd - ʎllɐᴉʇɹɐd 'pǝƃᴉlqo - pǝʇɐƃᴉlqo ' ǝɯ ɟlǝsʎɯ 'uƃᴉs - ɐᴉuƃᴉsuᴉ 'uoᴉʇɔᴉɟ - uoᴉʇɐɔᴉɹqɐɟ 'ǝʇɐɔɐʌ - ǝʇɐnɔɐʌǝ 'ǝƃɹn - ǝƃɐɹnoɔuǝ 'uoɔ - uoᴉʇdǝɔǝp 'ɯɹɐɥɔ - ɐɯsᴉɹɐɥɔ 'ǝɹɐq - uǝɹɹɐq 'unʇs - punoʇsɐ
