Return of the Add-A-Gram!

Question

This game is based on the Add-A-Gram puzzles by wildBillMunson. I think it's the 11th in the series, but who's really keeping count?

The goal: You need to find a chain of words, such that each next word is an anagram of the previous word plus an additional letter. You are given the meanings of the words, in order.

Example: a gas in a disjunction in a bird in a center in an influence.
The solution is O < OR < ROC < CORE < FORCE. You can format your answer however you want.

Here is the chain for you to solve:

a pole in a tenth in a forest dweller in a branch in a container in a separate leaf in igneous rocks in a sax player in a pen vendor in versions in a Middle Eastern artist in reprisals in sound repetitions in reestablishment.

Each one is a single word. That's 14 different words in total. Can you identify them?

kayzeroshort · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-02T02:55:28.707

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E N (North)
TE EN NE (10th element, @somebody)
ENT
TINE
STEIN
INSERT
NORITES
TENORIST
STATIONER
ITERATIONS
ORIENTALIST
RETALIATIONS
ALLITERATIONS
REINSTALLATION

edited Jun 02 '17 at 02:55

answered Jun 01 '17 at 21:33

kayzeroshort

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I found this: https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Mindrones/Wiki/Subdivision_modelling/The_pole/E_and_N_poles and convinced myself that from "do" to "te" on a musical scale is a "tenth" interval. not sure if that's true, though. – kayzeroshort Jun 01 '17 at 21:43
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^ is not correct. – kayzeroshort Jun 01 '17 at 21:46
@kayzeroshort can you explain the first two? i don't quite understand. – Quintec Jun 01 '17 at 22:06
do to te is a ninth, I'm afraid. – Gareth McCaughan Jun 01 '17 at 22:19
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@kayzeroshort 10 is Ne (Neon, tenth element) – somebody Jun 02 '17 at 02:43
@somebody good call. – kayzeroshort Jun 02 '17 at 02:51

Return of the Add-A-Gram!

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