Anagrams of: DREARIES

• completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress

• poised for action

• (of especially money) immediately available

• mentally disposed

• made suitable and available for immediate use

• apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity

• prepare for eating by applying heat

• make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc

• a special loved one

• a beloved person; used as terms of endearment

• (especially of rows as of troops or mountains) pressed together

• someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)

• a corporate investor who intends to take over a company by buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing new management

• a person who enjoys reading

• someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication

• a person who can read; a literate person

• someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication

• someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections

• someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church

• a public lecturer at certain universities

• one of a series of texts for students learning to read