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The fortnightly test your anagram power #5, 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!

AAGILMNO	MAGNOLIA A tree with showy flowers.
ABDINOTY	ANTIBODY A defensive substance produced in an organism in response to a foreign body such as a bacteria.
AAORRSU	AURORAS (Pl.) AURORA, a luminous atmospheric phenomenon.
AGNORTUY	NUGATORY Of little or no consequence; trifling.
AILMOPT	OPTIMAL Most desirable.
ADLMORU	MODULAR Pertaining to a module; (noun) a thing composed of modules.
EEENNOPR	NEOPRENE An oil-resisting and heat-resisting synthetic rubber.
CEEEHORS	REECHOES (3rd.) REECHO, to echo back; to reverberate again.
AABDELPT	BALDPATE A bald person.
AGHIMNTY	THINGAMY A whatsit. Also THINGUMMY, THINGAMYBOB, THINGAMYJIG, THINGUMABOB, THINGUMAJIG, THINGUMBOB, THINGUMMYBOB, THINGUMMYJIG.
CEEHINTT	ENTHETIC (Especially of infectious disease) introduced into the body from outside.
AAHNOSTT	THANATOS (Greek) in Freudian psychology, the urge for destruction or self-destruction: THANATOSES.
DELOOSS	DOLOSSE (Pl.) DOLOS, the knucklebone of a sheep used by diviners.
AABHINS	HASBIAN A former lesbian who has become heterosexual or bisexual.
ELNOOSTZ	SOLONETZ (Russian) an alkaline soil-type having a hard dark subsoil under a thin friable topsoil. Also SOLONETS.
AAIOPRSU	PAROUSIA (Greek) a coming, especially the second coming of Christ.
ADILMORU	ORDALIUM (Lat.) a Latinized form of ORDEAL.
AEHMNOST	HOASTMEN (Pl.) HOASTMAN, a member of an old merchant guild in Newcastle.
CEERSSTW	SETSCREW A type of screw.
EEIMMSTU	SEMIMUTE Partially mute.

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