Kangaroo Words Contain a Smaller Version of Themselves

Emiliano Somoza Jr. is from Miami, Florida, and he shared with us some kangaroo words.

Now, kangaroo words are words that contain all of the letters of one of their synonyms, and they’re arranged in the same order in both words. So, for example, the word regulate, if you look at that word regulate, it has inside it the word rule.

So you can regulate somebody or you can rule over that person.

And another example is the word masculine. Any guesses about what’s inside that one that’s a synonym?

Well, male is in there. Male, yeah, M-A-L-E.

And blossom has the word bloom in it.

But he sent a couple that were surprising to me. I don’t know. For some reason, I had a hard time with it.

One of them is precipitation.

Oh, I need a pen and paper, which I do not have in front of me.

Rain isn’t in there.

Yes.

It is? There’s an end?

Oh, yeah, there is. It’s at the end. Doi.

Kangaroo words, they’re a lot of fun.

But we have to say why they’re called kangaroo words, because the little kangaroo is in the pocket of the big kangaroo.

You’re absolutely right.

And those are called joeys.

And sometimes people actually call these words Joey words.

Well, if you come up with some kangaroo words, share them with us.

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