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The fortnightly test your anagram power #31, 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!

AEEINTV	NAIVETE (Fr.) the state of being naive.
AELNRTU	NEUTRAL Taking no part on either side (noun) one that is impartial
AEELORTT	TOLERATE To allow without active opposition.
AEENORRS	REASONER One who reasons.
AELMOSTU	SOULMATE A person with who one has most affinity.
DENORSTY	DRYSTONE Constructed of stone without mortar.
ADEEFIRR	RAREFIED (Pt.) RAREFY, to make less dense.
AEENNRTV	REVENANT (Fr.) one that returns after death or a long absence.
EEGIRRST	REGISTER A written record or official list regularly kept; (verb) to record officially.
DEFIINTY	IDENTIFY To establish the identity of.
CEELOTX	CELOTEX (Tradename) a type of insulation board.
CEGNORSY	CRYOGENS (Pl.) CRYOGEN, a substance for obtaining low temperatures, a freezing mixture.
CEHIOPRS	SOPHERIC (Hebrew) relating to the sopherim, Jewish scribes.
CILORSTY	COYSTRIL An inferior groom or lad employed by an esquire to carry the knight's arms and other necessaries.
DEFIMOPR	PEDIFORM Shaped like a foot.
DGINOSUY	DIGYNOUS Of or pertaining to the Digynia; having two styles.
DIIOPRTY	PITYROID (Arch.) bran-like.
IKLNOOS	SKOLION (Greek) a short drinking song of ancient Greece, taken up by the guests in irregular succession.
EIKMNOSU	MOUSEKIN (Arch.) a little mouse.
AAACGINT	CAATINGA (Tupi) in Brazil, open, low forest on white sandy soil derived from granite.

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