KANGAROO WORDS VIII

GAMES Magazine

November/December, 1980

Dmitri A. Borgmann 

INSIDE WORDS: THE KANGAROO GAME

A kangaroo word is one that has within its letters a synonym of itself, with the letters of the synonym in correct, but not consecutive, order. The hidden synonyms are referred to as "inside" words - or joeys - after the name of the baby kangaroo carried in its mother's pouch. Some examples of kangaroo words and their joeys:

CURTAIL - CUT

OBSERVE - SEE

CATACOMB - TOMB

INSTRUCTOR - TUTOR

EVACUATE - VACATE

 

Find the joeys in  each of these kangaroo words. The words are listed according to their joeys' length. 

1. Blackguard

2. Tolerate

3. Slippery

4. Conveyance

5. Yearning

6. Transgression

7. Discourteous

8. Inheritor

9. Latest

10. Flourishing

11. Incommunicative

12. Pasteurized

13. Christening

14. Honorable

15. Splotches

16. Somber 

17. Charisma

18. Recapitulate

19. Exhilaration

20. Fabrication

Answers:

 

1. Cad

2. Let

3. Sly

4. Van

5. Yen

6. Sin

7. Curt

8. Heir

9. Last

10. Lush

11. Mute 

12. Pure

13. Rite

14. Noble

15. Spots

16. Sober

17. Charm

18. Recite

19. Elation

20. Fiction