Kangaroo word a word that contains its antonym; for example: "covert" carries "overt", "animosity" carries "amity". Some compilers require that the letters of the joey word not be consecutive within the kangaroo word, or that the kangaroo and joey words must be etymologically unrelated. 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. This was later reprinted in "the Reader's Digest". Kangaroo word A kangaroo word is a word that contains letters of another word, in order, with the same meaning. For example: the word "masculine" contains
Interrogative word and "-soever", as in "whoso" and "whomsoever".) These words have the following main meanings: Some of these words have also developed independent meanings, such as "however" as an adverb meaning "nonetheless"; "whatsoever" as an emphatic adverb used with "no", "none", "any", "nothing", etc. ("I did nothing wrong whatsoever"); and "whatever" in its slang usage. A frequent class of interrogative words in several other languages is the interrogative verb: Interrogative word An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as "what", "when", "where", "who", "whom", "why", and "how". They are sometimes called wh-words,