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LONGMAN GCSE CHEMISTRY WORKSHEETS
17: Anagrams
If you rearrange the letters in TRURONIAN, you can make the words RON IN A RUT. This is
called an anagram of TRURONIAN. In crossword puzzle clues, anagrams are often hinted at
using words like "muddled", "mixed", "broken", "confused" and so on.
This is an example from a national newspaper crossword puzzle:
Extremely ugly house I'd completely transformed. (7)
"transformed" suggests the possibility of an anagram - so you look for words totalling 7 letters
that you can rearrange. "house I'd" has got 7 letters.
It is often helpful to write the letters down in a circle so that you muddle them up a bit.
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Now you need to rearrange the letters to make a word which means
whatever is left in the clue - in this case "extremely ugly". The word is
"hideous". If you can't spot the word you want immediately, try writing the
letters down in a different order.
To help you in this exercise, the words you will need to make anagrams of are printed in italics.
All the answers have some chemistry connection. The numbers in brackets are the numbers of
letters in the answer. (8,5) means that there are two words. If you fill in the grid (on the back of
the sheet) correctly, a great truth will become obvious in the heavily outlined vertical column.
1. Gin a crude gent mixed for something that removes oxygen. (8,5)
2. GDR honey produces an explosive gas. (8)
3. Re-bake mixture to make a glass container. (6)
4. Arm rot confused with pestle's other half. (6)
5. Reign not broken for a gas. (8)
6. Still an idiot, confused about a way of making pure water. (12)
7. Muddled, I stop a sum to get a reactive metal. (9)
8. It's only got three legs - prod it around. (6)
9. Yet as mixed up as an ingredient in fermentation. (5)
10. An inflammable metal is amusing me strangely. (9)
11. Upset livers produce shiny metal. (6)
12. Broken fir let the liquid separate from the solid. (6)
13. Pop! The clear pus turns to blue crystals. (6,8)
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14. Oddly, none gave this inert gas. (4)
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Now work out some anagrams of your own and provide the clues to go with them. Remember
that the clue must contain some word hinting at the possibility of an anagram. Your answers
must have some relevance to chemistry. Don't try to be too ambitious to start with. Choose
words containing common letters with a reasonable proportion of vowels and consonants. Three
words are given to you to practice on. You should be able to find anagrams for these quite
easily. After that you can choose your own words.
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17. octane (a hydrocarbon found in petrol): ..........................................................…………….
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Continue on a sheet of A4 if you have time.
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