Describe your writing and/or your reading life using a Kangaroo word.
Technically, a kangaroo word carries its own synonym within it (called a joey word), but I don’t know how else to describe this game. Bonus points if you do!
Fill in the blanks:
My writing puts the ____ in _______. My reading life puts the _____ in ___________.
To get the ball rolling, I’ll start.
My writing puts the sass in assassin, the laughter in slaughter. My reading life puts the fun in funeral.
Your turn!
My writing puts the fun in dysfunctional. My reading life puts the cult in difficulty.
Haha. Love it!
This is a hard challenge! I’ll give it a go:
My canine horror story puts the arf in fearful.
My love of reading zombie stories puts the ate in fascinate.
Right? It isn’t an easy. Great job, Priscilla. Nailed it!
Fun game, Sue. Never heard of kangaroo words but that’s a perfect definition.
Need more coffee before playing.
I hear that, Debbie. 🙂
Thanks for this fun activity, Sue!
My writing puts the FICTION in FabrICaTION.
My reading puts the RATION in fRAcTION.
Cheers!
Well done, Louis!
My pleasure. I thought it’d be a fun exercise to get the creative juices flowing. 😀
I wrote in a crossfire hurricane
And I wrote at the mornin’ drivin’ rain
But I’m alright now, in fact I’m the gas
But I’m alright now, I’m Jumpin’ Jack Flash I’m the cat’s ass gas
Hahaha. Tryin’ to get that song stuck my head? Lalalala. *turns up the headphones*
I feel like mine is a cheat because it’s too easy….
I put the “story” in history. 😎
Nonsense. That’s a great one, Brenda! Kinda jealous I didn’t think of it. 😉
My writing puts the tune in fortune. My reading life puts the intel in my intelligence.
Excellent job, Cherub! Very clever.
Love this game!
My writing puts the fiction in mystiFICaTION.
My reading puts the mental fun in FUNdaMENTAL
Love your answers, Kay! Well done.
This is fascinating, Sue! I’d never heard of it. Now, I just gotta play the game…I’ll have to do some thinking. 🙂
Found this on Wikipedia for all of us word-freaks.
“A kangaroo word is a word that contains all the letters of one of its synonyms, called a joey word, arranged so that these letters appear in the same order in both words. For example, the word action is a kangaroo word containing the joey word act; the words in[flammable] and [malign]ant also each include their own synonyms. In the kangaroo word, the letters of the joey word may also be separated, as in [ma]scu[l]in[e], which contains the letters of male scattered throughout. Some compilers in fact require that the letters of the joey word not be consecutive within the kangaroo word,[1] or may stipulate that the kangaroo and joey words be etymologically unrelated, so that in both cases words such as action (act), inflammable (flammable) and malignant (malign) would not qualify.[1]
Kangaroo words were originally popularized as a word game by Ben O’Dell in an article for The American Magazine, volume 151, during the 1950s, later reprinted in Reader’s Digest.[2][3]
The phrase kangaroo word is derived from the fact that kangaroos carry their young, known as joeys, in a body pouch. Likewise, kangaroo words carry their joey words within themselves. A twin kangaroo is a kangaroo word that contains two joey words (for example: container features both tin and can). In contrast, an anti-kangaroo word is a word that contains its antonym (for example: covert carries overt, animosity carries amity).[4] A grand kangaroo is a kangaroo word which has two joeys, one of which is in the pouch of the other. For instance, alone is a grand kangaroo since it contains lone, which carries its own synonym one.”
fascinating.
Yep. I read that, too, Deb. Fascinating, right?
My writing combines the vamp in vampire with the hot in shotgun to deliver the cry in crypt.
My reading life (or perhaps this line) is the ax of climax.
Haha. Bravo, Robert!
My writing puts the fill in fulfillment.
My reading puts the plea in pleasure.
Awesome answers, AZAli!
Such a fun game for a Friday, Sue!
My writing puts the ding in ending and my reading the fan in fantastic.
Thanks for putting fun into Friday (not a Kangaroo, but I couldn’t resist 🙂
Terrific answers, Dale! Kangaroo or not, fun in Friday seems appropriate today. 😉
My writing puts the pen in SusPENse. 🙂
My reading puts the thrill in THRILLers.
Lame I know…
This was fun.
Not lame. Perfect! Thanks for playing, Patricia.
I guess you could say my writing allows my contrarian nature to put the pen in pencil…
And my analog mind puts the age in page… ?
Good one, George!
My Moon writings put the numb in peNUMBra
and reading techno-thrillers puts the gab in giGAByte
Haha. Well done, Robert!