The next time you get into a competitive game of Scrabble, make like Miley Cyrus and twerk. That word, along with 6,500 others, is now officially acceptable to play.

The BBC reports that the Collins Official Scrabble Word List has released a massive update to its list of acceptable terms to play. And many of their additions would make a purist fume.

Slang terms that are used more for texting than for literature are included — words like lolz, shizzle, obvs, ridic, thanx, and cazh (short for casual) are now totally cool to play. And high-tech terms like hacktivist, emoji, and geocache (a game that helps you find hidden objects using GPS) are also OK to play now.

And here's a word to learn for that high score: quinzhee, an Inuit snow shelter. That'll give you 29 points, and that's not counting any double or triple scores. These new words aren't exactly a departure for the Scrabble list, which already features 250,000 words.

The reigning world champion of Scrabble, Craig Beevers, reacted enthusiastically in an op-ed in The Guardian. "I personally look forward to these updates; they keep things fresh," he wrote. "Words reflect culture, particularly modern culture." So if your stickler friends won't allow you to play "THANX," let them know the best player in the world doesn't mind.

From: Good Housekeeping US