For those, however, who are playing for the love of money as well, definitions seem superfluous. That's why the brand-new Official Tournament and Club Word List has shed those pesky definitions found in the previous Scrabble dictionaries and simply offers the words in list format. The time you spend learning meanings, you're not going to learn another word. And there are words, by God, to learn. But while the players say word meanings are absolutely irrelevant, Scrabble corporate might disagree.
Players work hard at learning the word list.
In other words, they didn't take lightly to having their vulgarities snatched from play. They're not derogatory on the board, just in the way you use them. But some were in favor of eliminating words because of their emotional power. But it is not the words they still have to learn that haunts them, it is the words that got away, the ones they could have sworn were legitimate but aren't that haunt them, like phantom aches from missing limbs. I know I have unpadded gloves.