private static String[] mixedWords(String[] words) { String[] newWords = new String[words.length]; for(int i = 0; i < words.length; i++) { if(i % 2 == 0) newWords[i] = recombine(words[i+1], words[i]); if (i % 2 > 0) newWords[i] = recombine(words[i], words[i+1]); } return newWords; }