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cacique

Person involved in nepotism or fraud. Originally a word for Indian chiefs in colonial Spanish America, in late 19th- and early 20th-century Spain it came to mean the local political boss who ‘delivered’ votes to the main parties in Madrid.



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Dr Karl Khoshnaw, from Manchester, holds the record for the highest word score in a competition, scoring 392 points with CAZIQUES - plural name for a
SCRABBLE RECORDS by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
In April 1982, Karl Khoshnaw scored a record 392 points with the word CAZIQUES getting Q on a double letter score and the C and S on triple word scores.
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Caziques means West Indian Chiefs; l The highest total score is 830, achieved by American player Michael Cresta in October 2006; l The game contains 100 tiles, 98 marked with a letter and point value based on their frequency in standard English writing.
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