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                                                        ____________