Take the names of two countries that share a border and put them together. Remove the second letter of the second country. You will get a regular English word. What is it?
MALI and NIGER are two African countries that share a border.
Now, we observe that:
MALI +(NIGER-I)
= MALI+NGER
=MALINGER
From Merriam-Webster Dictionary, we find that "malinger" is a regular English word which means "to pretend or to exaggerate incapacity or illness."
The verb "malinger" comes from French word "malingre" meaning "sickly".
Edited on January 24, 2022, 5:36 pm
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