A Made up List of Words...

*If I were able to leave William Shakespeare a note, it would go a little something like this.

Thank you Mr. Shakespeare, the English language owes you a monumental debt. You inventively found ways around, over and through our vernacular. It seemed to come naturally for you to  change nouns into verbs and verbs into adjectives, while adding prefixes and suffixes to other words where there were none.  At times you even made completely new words altogether. So congratulations on accomplishing the fabrication of over 1700 of our common everyday words. The books I love and hold dear wouldn't be the same without you.

 

A modest list of Shakespeare's contribution to the English language.

A

academe, accused, addiction, advertising, amazement
arouse, assassination

B

backing, bandit, bedroom,
beached, besmirch, birthplace, blanket, bloodstained
barefaced, blushing, bet, bump, buzzer

C

caked, cater, champion, circumstantial, cold-blooded,
compromise, courtship, countless, critic

D

dauntless, dawn, deafening, discontent, dishearten, drugged,
dwindle

E

epileptic, equivocal, elbow, excitement,
exposure, eyeball, fashionable

F

fixture, flawed,
frugal

G

generous, gloomy, gossip, green-eyed,
gust, gnarled, grovel

H

hint, hobnob, hurried

I

impede,
impartial, invulnerable

J

jaded

label, lackluster,
laughable, lonely, lower, luggage, lustrous

M

madcap, majestic, marketable, mimic,
monumental, moonbeam, mountaineer

N

negotiate, noiseless

O

obscene, obsequiously, ode, Olympian, outbreak

P

panders, pedant, premeditated, puking,

R

radiance,
rant, remorseless

S

savagery, scuffle, secure,
skim milk, submerge, summit, swagger

T

torture, tranquil

U

undress, unreal

V

varied vaulting

W

worthless

Z

zany

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