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The fortnightly test your anagram power #10, 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!

ADEIINR	DENARII (Pl.) DENARIUS, a Roman coin.
ABDEINOT	OBTAINED (Pt.) OBTAIN, to gain possession of.
AEGMNST	MAGNETS (Pl.) MAGNET, a body that possesses the property of attracting iron.
AEHNPRT	PANTHER A leopard, esp. a black one.
ACDENRSU	DURANCES (Pl.) DURANCE, imprisonment.
ACENNOTV	COVENANT A mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties; (verb) to make a covenant.
AEHNNOPT	PANTHEON (Greek) a temple dedicated to all the gods, or where images or other memorials of all the gods of a nation are collected.
AAEHMNPT	PATHNAME The name of a file or directory together with its position in relation to other directories.
ABCHIOST	COHABITS (3rd.) COHABIT, to live together as husband and wife.
ACFHILNO	FALCHION A broad curved sword. Also FAUCHON, FAUCHION, FAULCHION.
EILMORSY	RIMOSELY (Adv.) RIMOSE, full of chinks,
AADEFLU	AEFAULD Onefold or singular; simple; honest. Also AEFALD, AFALD, AFAWLD.
ADMNOSU	OSMUNDA Any fern of the genus Osmunda, that includes royal fern. Also OSMUND.
AAELPRTT	TETRAPLA (Greek) an edition of four parallel texts, esp. Origen's of the Old Testament.
AACIPRST	ASPARTIC As in aspartic acid, an amino acid found in young sugar-cane, etc, and formed by the hydrolysis of ASPARAGINE.
AEGHPRS	SPREAGH (Gaelic) a cattle raid; a foray.
AAEMNSST	NAMASTES (Pl.) NAMASTE, a traditional salutation, a slight bow with the palms pressed together.
AAILMPRT	PRIMATAL Relating to a PRIMATE; (noun) a primate.
ABEIMNPS	PEMBINAS (Pl.) PEMBINA, a variety of cranberry.
AHIIMST	SAMITHI (Hindi) in India, an organisation or committee of workers. Also SAMITI.

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