HOP ON THIS OXFORD WORD CHALLENGE: KANGAROO WORDS
Apr 04
| ANSWERS ARE IN COMMENT THREE BELOW. |
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.For example, the kangaroo word illuminated contains the synonym lit among its letters. Similarly exists hides the word is and deceased includes dead.
Try to find synonyms in the following words:
- Amicable.
- Appropriate (adjective).
- Salvage (verb).
- Hostelry.
- Encourage.
- Recline.
- Before.
- Instructor.
- Separate (verb).
- Catacomb.
- Indolent.
- Precipitation.
- Deliberate (verb).
- Observe.
- Transgression.
- Unsightly.
- Destruction.
- Masculine.
- Umpteenth.
- Because.
Can you find two synonyms inside these kangaroo words?
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Comment by jess — April 4, 2007 @ 9:07 am
Um, I got two of those thingies on the first two of the last group and then . . . you know, for being a writer, I’m just not good at word puzzles!
Comment by Sally Bradley — April 4, 2007 @ 8:58 pm
Kangaroo Words: Answers
1. amiable.
2. apt.
3. save.
4. hotel.
5. urge.
6. lie.
7. ere.
8. tutor.
9. part.
10. tomb.
11. idle.
12. rain.
13. debate.
14. see.
15. sin.
16. ugly.
17. ruin.
18. male.
19. nth.
20. as.
21. lone, one.
22. can, tin.
23. fragile, frail.
24. falsies, lies.
25. amble, ramble.
26. pure, purged.
Comment by christa allan — April 4, 2007 @ 9:20 pm
i want more examples of kangaroo words.. tnx
Comment by april — March 9, 2008 @ 1:12 am