10 Obscure Words That Will Help You Beat Anyone At Scrabble

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Sun, 09/25/2016 - 11:45am

REUTERS/Kacper PempelCheck out the final board from a World Scrabble Championship and you might feel like you're reading a foreign language. You'd only know all those words if, like many Scrabble champions, you'd spent months poring over the dictionary, learning names for plant parts and ancient instruments. We dug up the words from the last four years of Scrabble championships and highlighted some of the weirdest below.

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