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The fortnightly test your anagram power #9, 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!

ABDEFOS	SOFABED A sofa that converts into a bed.
ADLMORU	MODULAR Pertaining to a module > MODULARLY; (noun) a thing composed of modules > MODULARS.
AELOSVY	SAVELOY A highly seasoned sausage.
ABDEILLS	SLIDABLE That can be slid.
ACDGIMOT	DOGMATIC Like DOGMA > DOGMATICS, DOGMATICALLY.
AAENNSTU	NAUSEANT Something causing nausea.
ACGHILOR	OLIGARCH A member of an OLIGARCHY.
DEGGIRU	DRUGGIE (Coll.) a drug addict.
AEGNOSSY	NOSEGAYS (Pl.) NOSEGAY, a bouquet of fragrant flowers.
BDDEINRU	UNDERBID To bid lower than.
BEEGILLR	GERBILLE (Fr.) a desert rodent. Also JERBIL, GERBIL.
AEENRSSX	XERANSES (Pl.) XERANSIS, a drying up.
EIOPPST	POTPIES (Pl.) POTPIE, a meat pie which is boiled instead of being baked.
EIKLPST	SKELPIT (Pt.) SKELP, to hustle; to strike.
ACEHNPRT	PENTARCH A member of a PENTARCHY, government by five persons.
ACEINPSY	SAPIENCY Discernment; judgement. Also SAPIENCE.
AIKOSTW	KWAITOS (Pl.) KWAITO, a type of S. African pop music.
EEILMNNU	ENLUMINE (Spenser) to illumine.
DENOOSS	NOSODES (Pl.) NOSODE, a homeopathic remedy consisting of diluted discharge.
ADLMOPSY	PSALMODY The act of singing psalms in church services.

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