2007-02-24 17:56:53 · 5 answers · asked by Sherlock Holmes 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
For example, the kangaroo word illuminated contains the synonym lit among its letters. Similarly exists hides the word is and deceased includes dead.
Every schoolchild knows that kangaroos carry their babies in their pouches. Fewer people know about kangaroo words, which carry their own baby words with the same meanings.
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2007-02-24 19:37:33 · answer #1 · answered by neel 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kangaroo Words
2016-10-07 02:09:56 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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What are kangaroo words? Why are they so called? Give some examples.?
2015-08-14 09:52:36 · answer #3 · answered by Zolly 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are small words within larger words (like a joey in a kangaroo's pouch), eg, illuminated contains ill, in, ate: exist contains is; contents contains con, ten, tent; etc
2007-02-24 18:06:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A kangaroo word is a word that contains letters of another word, in order, with the same meaning. For example: the word masculine contains the word male, which is a synonym of the first word. Similarly, the word observe contains its synonym see.
The origin of the word kangaroo words seems to be from the fact that just as kangaroo, the marsupial animal, carries its baby in its body pouch, the kangaroo words carry their "baby" words within themselves.
[edit] List of kangaroo words (English)
abERRANT
aBidE
ACcomplishmenT
AChievemenT
ACrID
ACTion
AdRoiTness
AffeCT
AffeCTation
ALLOcaTe
aLONE; alONE
AMIcABLE
AMIcabiliTY; AMIcABILITYd
APposiTe
APpropriaTe
ARCh
AREnA
ARTfulness
ARTifice
ARTistry
AsseVERate
aSToUNd
BALsaM
BANish
BARrEn
BARricade; BARRicadED
BARrier
BARristers
becAuSe
BEfall
bEfoRE
beLATEd
BLOssOM
BLOTch
BOMBard
BrEathe
BUrST
caLumnIES
CAniStEr
capABLE
CApSulE
cARToon
CASkEt
caTacOMB
CAVErn
charACTerize
ChARgE
CLEANse
CLEANsER
ClUE
conCEDE
cONfederatEd
ContAiNer
CONTRAdictoRY
COoLeD
COzeN
CUrTail
DAMsEl
DAuB
DAZzlE
deBAR
DEceAseD
deCeptiON
DEliBerATE (verb)
DEpArteD
depARtMent
DEPOsiTory
DESIdeRatE
destRUctIoN
dEVILish
DIcE
disCoURTeous
encoURaGE
enJOYment
EQUitAbLe
eVACuATE
exISts
exPURgatE
FabrICaTION
FACadE
fACTOR
fACTUAL
faLsItiES
FEasteD and feAsTEd
FRAnGIbLE and FRAngIbLe
HeALthiER
hiSTORY
hoNOraBLE
HOsTELry
ilLumInaTed
iMpAiR
imAgInaRY
imPERTinent
INcApaBILITY
InDoLEnt
inEFFEcTivE
inHErItoR
insTrUcTOR
inTOXICate
IRatEness
jOiNEd
JOvialitY
LAteST
LIghTed
MARkeT
MAscuLinE; MAsculiNe
MATchES
muniCIpaliTY
MysElf
OBLIGatED
obNOXIOUS
obSErvE
PANTaloonS
perAMBuLatE
peRIMeter
PINioNED
POSturED
prACTiOneR
PRATtlE
pRecipitAtIoN
prEmAtuReLY
proSecUtE
QUIEscenT
RAmpaGE
RApSCALlion
RAvaGING
reACT
recLInE
RegULatE
RESpiTe
REtroGRESS
REVOLuTion
ROtUND
SAlVagE
SATiatE
SATisfiED
SciON
sCoUndRel
sCUlpT
self-COntrOLled
sePARaTe
SLIthereD
SPLInTer
SPlOTch
StOCKing
sTRIvES
suBstAnDard
SUPERvIsOR
tranSgressIoN
TRUSTworthY
umpteeNTH
UnsiGhtLY
VARIEgateD
VERacITY
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2007-02-25 21:18:33 · answer #5 · answered by AbuSaleh 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Butterfly
2015-06-22 23:11:48 · answer #6 · answered by Suresh 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well lets see now... there's "she'll be right mate", "it's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey", "bloody oath mate","wanna cuppa", there are quite a few sayings that we have. I'm trying to teach my other-half a few before he comes over from his country. The best way to learn is to come back over and listen to us Aussies speak. And yes we do know how to speak English it's just that our forefathers were lazy speakers and thats why we speak the way we do.
2016-03-17 00:20:34 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hippopotamus
2015-06-28 21:03:27 · answer #8 · answered by benjamin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋