Things I Didn’t Know #014: Kangaroo Words

A kangaroo word is a word that contains letters of another word, in order, with the same meaning. For example: the word masculine contains the word male…

and

In contrast, an anti-kangaroo word is a word that contains its antonym; for example: covert carries overt)

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_word

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