Yes, there’s an official Scrabble dictionary, compiled and maintained by Merriam-Webster. So don’t try and cheat with some unofficial Oxford English or Dictionary.com.
So what are these exciting new additions?
Well, they range from the modern vernacular (i.e. — frenemy, bromance, selfie) to the bizarre (i.e. — coqui, qajaq…a small arboreal frog, and a kayak…respectively). Plus there’s some that you would assume were already included (ie — da, mojito).
On that note, I’ll leave you to C-H-I-L-L-A-X as you plot your Scrabble B-U-Z-Z-K-I-L-L takedown of your F-R-E-N-E-M-Y, and other opponents…it’s probably a good thing the game doesn’t require that you use these words in a sentence.
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