I remember being taught this by my Literature teacher in school long ago but I can't remember the actual term, maybe complicated sounding like 'onomatopoeia'.
I don't mean apostrophes e.g. wouldn't.
An example is:
elongated = long,
where the second word can be formed by removing certain letters from the first word, and retain somewhat the original meaning.
A list of such words would also be cute.
Answer
...where the second word can be formed by removing certain letters from the first word
They're called Kangaroo words. The small synonyms are joeys.
From wikipedia:
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, which is a synonym of the first word; similarly, the word observe contains its synonym see.
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