jueves, 24 de diciembre de 2015

Kangaroo words within words; Worlds within worlds....

Following up from our previous entry KANGAROO WORDS are those which carry within their spellings a smaller word which can be a synonym. They should not be confused with anagrams such as

POOL, LOOP, POLO
FOWL, WOLF, FLOW
DARE, READ, DEAR
LAME, MALE, MEAL
ACRE, RACE, CARE
SEAT, EAST,  SATE
NAME, AMEN, MANE

I´LL GIVE YOU SOME EXAMPLES AND YOU´LL HAVE TO FIND THE HIDDEN KANGAROO WORDS IN THE REMAINING LIST:


DECEASED........................................DEAD

SALVAGE..........................................SAVE

CATACOMB......................................TOMB

EXISTS..............................................IS

ROTUND...........................................ROUND

ILLUMINATED................................LIT

FABRICATION.................................FICTION

REVOLUTION..................................REVOLT

FACADE............................................FACE

RECLINE...........................................LIE

ENGAGED........................................GAG

APPROPRIATE................................

OBSERVE........................................

DELIBERATE................................

PANTALOONS...............................

PRECIPITATION..........................

SUPERVISOR................................

HOSTELRY...................................

PREMATURELY.........................

MASCULINE..............................

PERIMETER.............................

BALSAM...................................

FALSIFIED.............................

FOX.........................................


Which other words can you find embedded in the list below?:

CARPENTER     CARMEN  CARMINATIVE

BUNGALOWS  capital punishment for small cakes

MARGIN spoil the alcoholic drink

CHAMPAGNE (fake an ache)

PILLAGE time for contraception

SUMMERSAULT  seasonal seasoning

LACTOSE  without sth on your feet

CASTRATE  number of attempts made by an angler

FONDANT a loving insect

 ABOMINABLE  a terrorist attack on an animal

ALPHABET gamble on italian car 

PERVERSE poetry for cats

PROPAGANDA genuine goose 

FLATULENT loaned out your apartment 

MOCCASIN   scorn any wrong doing

TANGENT  a sunburn fellow 

ASTEROID   a body-builder from outer space 

BREAKFAST an emergency stop 

MALARIA  a shopping precinct

BULLETIN a container for ammunition 

EXTREMIST  heavy fog

 SANDWICH  a seaside sorceress 

SHAMROCK a false stone 

HURRICANE a stick for quick walkers 

ADAGE a commercial era 

ANALOGY  for example hay fever 

AN UROLOGIST  for your neurons 

INTELLIGENT  fashionable TV personality  

IMMENSITY  huge urban connurbation 

FANATIC circulate air near the roof 

THINKING  a slim monarch 

HORTICULTURE supercilious society 

DOGMATIC  flea on a hound with litter 

continue with any other REBUSES  you may devise: 




See the following list of ANTI-KANGAROO WORDS    WHAT DO THEY STAND FOR?

Find the opposite or complementary in the following

                   anti-kangaroo words.

  1. animosity
  2. bearded
  3. communicative
  4. courteous
  5. covert
  6. effective
  7. exacerbate
  8. fabrication
  9. feasted
  10. female
  11. friend
  12. negligently
  13. pest
  14. prudent
  15. prurient
  16. redoubtable
  17. resigned
  18. revolution
  19. she
  20. there
  21. thoroughly
  22. unruffianly
  23. wonderful
  24. wreckless


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