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-Given a word and a list of possible anagrams, select the correct sublist.
+An anagram is a rearrangement of letters to form a new word.
+Given a word and a list of candidates, select the sublist of anagrams of the given word.
 
 Given `"listen"` and a list of candidates like `"enlists" "google"
 "inlets" "banana"` the program should return a list containing