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The fortnightly test your anagram power #33, 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!

ABDINRU	UNBRAID To separate the strands of.
ACDIRST	DRASTIC Severe (noun) a severe purgative
AEEFILMN	FILENAME The name of a computer file.
ADGIILT	DIGITAL Relating to digits (noun) a piano key
AEILPRV	PREVAIL To triumph.
AAENRSUW	UNAWARES Without warning.
ABDELNST	BLANDEST (Superl.) BLAND, neutral-tasting.
EENNRUV	UNNERVE To deprive of courage.
AABGIRS	AIRBAGS (Pl.) AIRBAG, a safety device in a car comprising an inflatable airbag.
AAEIPRTZ	TRAPEZIA (Pl.) TRAPEZIUM, a quadrilateral with two parallel sides.
BDGIIOO	GOBIOID A fish of the goby family.
DIMORSTY	MIDSTORY The middle part of a story.
CHIOORS	ISOCHOR A curve representing the variation of some quantity under conditions of constant volume.
IMNOOPSU	OPSONIUM Anything eaten with bread as a relish, esp fish.
ADEEEHRX	EXHEDRAE (Pl.) EXHEDRA, a semicircular bench beside an episcopal throne.
AGMRSSU	GRASSUM In Scots law, a lump sum paid in addition to rent by a person taking a lease of landed property.
IKNNRSTU	TURNSKIN (Arch.) a werewolf.
AIMNOOOZ	ZOONOMIA Animal physiology.
BBEEINRR	BERBERIN An alkaloid obtained from barberry roots.
HILLOOPT	LOPOLITH A lens-shaped body of igneous rock.

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