Kangaroo words are words that contain other smaller words within them that have the same meaning, just like a kangaroo carrying its baby in its pouch.
An example is chicken. If you write it as cHickEN, and put together the words in caps you get HEN which means chicken. Get the drift?
Here is an article that has more details:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Kangaroo-Words
So are you ready? Here we go. Spot the joey in these marsupials:
1. Recline
2. Rotund
3. Indolent
4. Precipitation
5. Observe
02 May 2009
Let's play with kangaroo words
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