Appendix:Kangaroo words

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This appendix contains kangaroo words in English. The full words are listed below. The 'joey words' are in bold italics or (in the case of a second joey for twin kangaroo words) green text. This appendix also includes non-trivial anti-kangaroo words. Trivial examples such as "appropriate" and "inappropriate", or "like" and "dislike", are not included.

a

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  • aberrant
  • abnormality
  • abide
  • acclimatize
  • accustomed
  • acrid
  • action
  • addlepated
  • admixture
  • admonish
  • adroitness
  • adventuresome
  • adventurous
  • affect
  • aeroplane
  • aggravated
  • allocate
  • allurement
  • alone (grand kangaroo word) -> alone, lone, one
  • alternative
  • amicable
  • amicability
  • analogue
  • antiquated
  • antiseptic
  • applaud (and inflections)
  • applaudatory
  • apposite
  • appropriate
  • arch
  • arena
  • arouse
  • artifice
  • artistry
  • asseverate
  • astound
  • authentification
  • avariciousness
  • avocation
  • axletree

b

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  • balderdash
  • balsam
  • banish
  • barren
  • barricade; barricaded
  • barrier
  • barristers
  • bazillion
  • because
  • befall
  • befuddled
  • before
  • belated
  • bemoan
  • betwixt
  • bewitch
  • blatherskite
  • blossom
  • blotch
  • bobbled
  • bombarded
  • bombardier
  • brackets
  • brash
  • brashness
  • brobdingnagian
  • burglarize
  • burst

c

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  • cacodemon
  • calumnies
  • cancel
  • canister (can, case)
  • capable, capability
  • capsule
  • cartoon
  • casket
  • catacomb
  • catalog
  • cavern
  • charge
  • chariot
  • charisma
  • chicken
  • chocolate
  • chunk
  • cleanse
  • cleanser
  • cloistered
  • closemouthed
  • clue
  • clump
  • commonplace
  • community (county, city)
  • complaisant (grand kangaroo word) -> complaisant, compliant, pliant
  • completionist
  • concatenate
  • concede
  • concession
  • confabulate
  • confederated
  • conjoin
  • consummated
  • container (can, tin)
  • contaminate
  • contradictory
  • cooled
  • corporeal
  • cozen
  • crude
  • curtail

d

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  • damsel
  • darkling
  • daub
  • dazzle
  • debar
  • deboned
  • deceased
  • deception
  • decline
  • decoration
  • definitive
  • deflated
  • deliberated
  • delineation
  • demeaning
  • denumerable
  • departed
  • department
  • depository
  • depredatory
  • deprivation
  • desiderate
  • despiteful
  • despoiled
  • destruction
  • deteriorate (rot, die)
  • devilish
  • devoid
  • dice
  • dillydally
  • diminutive (minute, mini)
  • disappointed
  • discordance
  • discus
  • disembark
  • disembowel (embowel, bowel)
  • dismayed
  • disputation
  • disguise
  • disseminated
  • dissever
  • dissoluble
  • disassociate
  • distraughtness
  • distressing
  • doff
  • domination
  • dominatable
  • donator
  • drunkard

e

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  • effeminate
  • egotist
  • electrical
  • empathetic
  • encourage
  • encumber
  • enjoyment
  • entwined
  • equilateral
  • equitable
  • eradicated
  • evacuate
  • evaluation
  • eventuality
  • evidenced
  • exhausted
  • exhortatory
  • exists
  • exploitative
  • exposition
  • expurgate
  • extraneous

f

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  • fabrication
  • facade
  • factual
  • falsified
  • falsities
  • fanfaronade
  • farmable
  • feast
  • feasted
  • felicitous
  • flagging
  • fraction
  • frangible (grand kangaroo word) -> frangible, fragile, frail

g

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  • gazillion
  • gloop (grand kangaroo word) -> gloop, goop, goo
  • grandiose
  • granulated
  • gigantic

h

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  • hallway
  • harumph
  • hedgerow
  • hijack
  • himself
  • hindermost
  • history
  • honorable
  • hostelry
  • humanity
  • humankind (grand kangaroo word) → humankind, mankind, man
  • hurries

i

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  • illuminated
  • imaginary
  • impair
  • impassive
  • impertinent
  • implicated
  • imposter
  • incapability
  • incriminate
  • indentation
  • indentation
  • indolent
  • indefinitely
  • inflammable
  • infuriated
  • inhabitable
  • inheritable
  • inheritor
  • inhumane
  • insignia
  • instantaneous
  • investigate
  • instructor
  • intention
  • interfuse
  • intoxicate
  • invaluable
  • irateness
  • irradiate
  • irritated
  • islet
  • isolated

j

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  • joined
  • jollity
  • joviality

k

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  • kangaroo
  • kiddos
  • kindred

l

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  • latest
  • lighted
  • lone
  • lymphosarcoma

m

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  • magister, magister
  • malapert
  • manoeuvre
  • market
  • masculine
  • matches
  • median
  • middlemost
  • midsection
  • miniature
  • misinterpreted
  • moisture
  • municipality
  • mutter
  • myself

n

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  • neckbeard
  • neurotic
  • newfangled
  • nodule
  • noticeable
  • nourished

o

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  • obligated
  • obnoxious
  • observe
  • olden
  • oldfangled
  • omnibus
  • ornamented
  • outdated
  • outspokenly
  • overestimate
  • overhead

p

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  • pantaloons
  • partially
  • pellucid
  • perambulate (ramble, amble)
  • perdurable
  • perfervid
  • perorate
  • perimeter
  • persnickety
  • personality
  • plagiarist
  • platter
  • playfellow
  • plush
  • pinioned
  • postured
  • practicable
  • practitioner
  • prattle
  • precipitation
  • predominant
  • preeminent
  • prematurely
  • primogenitor
  • proffer
  • promenade
  • proportionate
  • prosecute

q

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  • quagmire, quagmire
  • quarter
  • quiescent
  • quintuplet

r

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  • rakish
  • rambunctious
  • rampage
  • ransack
  • rapscallion
  • raunchy
  • ravaging
  • recapitulate
  • reconciliation
  • recline
  • refurbishment
  • regulated
  • reoccurrence
  • repurposed
  • remorsefulness
  • resemblance
  • respite
  • reticule
  • retrogress
  • revivified
  • revolution
  • rigamarole
  • rotund
  • routine, routine

s

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  • salvage
  • satiate
  • satisfied
  • scallywag
  • scion
  • scoundrel
  • scrub
  • sculpt
  • separated
  • sextuplet
  • shadowy
  • shushed
  • shuttering
  • snick
  • signal
  • situated
  • slithered
  • smash
  • smidgen
  • snippets
  • snippety
  • spike
  • spittle
  • splinter
  • splotch
  • splutter
  • sprightly
  • squashed
  • stealthy
  • stocking
  • stonewall
  • strives
  • stumble
  • substandard
  • subtile
  • superb
  • superficial
  • superimpose
  • supervisor
  • supplicant
  • supplied
  • supremacist
  • surceased
  • surfeited
  • sweaty

t

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  • teetotal
  • temperament
  • ticky-tacky
  • tracked
  • transgression
  • trend
  • tribunal
  • trouvaille
  • truthfully
  • trustworthy

u

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  • umpteenth
  • unanimity
  • underneath
  • unsightly
  • utilising

v

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  • variegated
  • veracity

w

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  • weakened
  • weakening
  • wealth
  • whatsoever
  • whinge

y

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  • yearning

anti-kangaroo words

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  • abuse
  • animosity
  • avoidant
  • bearded
  • calamity
  • communicative
  • convent
  • courteous
  • covert
  • devolve
  • effective
  • exacerbate
  • extend
  • fabrication
  • feasted
  • female
  • friend
  • futile
  • iconoclast
  • lady
  • melodious
  • negligently
  • pest
  • prudent
  • prurient
  • redoubtable
  • resigned
  • revolution
  • salvaged
  • she
  • there
  • threat
  • thoroughly
  • unruffianly
  • veto
  • woman
  • wonderful