Have you ever heard of “Kangaroo words?” A Kangaroo word is a word that contains all the letters of one of its synonyms in order. This synonym is called a “Joey word,” because its letters appear in the same order in both words. For example “allocate” is a Kangaroo word and its Joey word is “allot.”
These Kangaroo words are looking for their Joeys. Can you help them out? The answers to this quiz can be found in the last article of our July 2023 issue, “Next Month in This Awful Awesome Life – August 2023.” Click on this link to get there, https://www.thisawfulawesomelife.com/home/2023/7/5/next-month-in-this-awful-awesome-life-august-2023
Better yet, read the entire issue and you’ll get there. Good luck!
Kangaroo Word Joey Word
1. Affect ____________
2. Masculine ____________
3. Alone ____________
4. Astound ____________
5. Blossom ____________
6. Chicken ____________
7. Calumnies ____________
8. Clue ____________
9. Community ____________ or ____________
10. Contaminate ____________
11. Container ___________ or ____________
12. Deception ____________
13. Encourage ____________
14. Feast ____________
15. Gigantic ____________
16. Honorable ____________
17. Hurries ____________
18. Isolated ____________
19. Joviality ____________
20. Myself ____________
21. Nourished ____________
22. Plagiarist ____________
23. Perimeter ____________
24. Quiescent ____________
25. Rampage ____________
26. Scion ____________
27. Separate ____________