Brain Teasers: Kangaroo Words

Kangaroos are large marsupials that are found only in Australia. Female

kangaroos have a pouch on their belly to hold baby kangaroos called joeys.

Basing the idea off of the actual mammal, a “kangaroo word” is a word

that contains its own synonym, a word with a similar meaning. This

synonym uses the same letters in the same order. The original word

is represented by the mom kangaroo and the synonym found inside

the word is represented by the baby joey.1

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