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The fortnightly test your anagram power #32, By David Sutton

Here is a quiz comprising twenty single-solution alphagrams of seven or eight letters. The first ten are words which a reasonably well-read person has a fair chance of knowing. The second ten are words likely to be known only to specialists or, of course, to good Scrabble players! Most of the words fall in the mid-probability range.

Hover over the relevant black box to reveal the answer. Good luck!

ACEINORX	ANOREXIC Pertaining to anorexia; (noun) one suffering from anorexia.
ACEILRTY	LITERACY The ability to read and write.
ADDEIOPR	PARODIED (Pt.) PARODY, to imitate a serious literary work for comic effect.
ADEIMNRY	DAIRYMEN (Pl.) DAIRYMAN, one who works in a dairy.
ABEIJLNO	JOINABLE That can be joined.
ABINORSW	RAINBOWS (Pl.) RAINBOW, an arc of spectral colors formed in the sky.
ACDEIMST	MISACTED (Pt.) MISACT, to act mistakenly.
BEELNNO	ENNOBLE To make noble.
EINQRUY	ENQUIRY An inquiry.
AHIMNSTU	HUMANIST One who studies human nature.
ABEEHNNS	HENBANES (Pl.) HENBANE, a plant of the nightshade family, noted for its poisonous and narcotic properties.
ACDEENNP	PENANCED (Pt.) PENANCE, to impose penance on.
ACEEEKNT	NECKATEE (Obs.) a neckerchief.
ADEEHMNN	MENHADEN (Am. Ind.) an oily fish of the herring family, found off the east coast of the United States.
AEEGSTTT	STAGETTE Another name for a nomogram.
CFIINOPT	PONTIFIC Relating to, or consisting of, pontiffs or priests.
EHMOPRW	MORPHEW (Ital.) a skin eruption.
CEIKMORS	OCKERISM Boorishness in Australians.
HIMPTUY	PYTHIUM A fungus of the genus Pythium.
EIIMMNNO	MENOMINI A small whitefish found in the northern US and Canada.

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