Although Shakespeare didn't come up with brand new words, he added suffixes and prefixes, changed nouns to verbs, verbs to nouns, and verbs to adjectives. Below are some words that he created.
accused
addiction
advertising
amazement
assassination
bloodstained
buzzer
champion
circumstantial
cold-blooded
compromise
critic
deafening
discontent
dishearten
drugged
excitement
eyeball
gloomy
hobnob
lonely
lower
madcap
marketable
metamorphize
moonbeam
mountaineer
obscene
outbreak
premeditated
puking
rant
remorseless
savagery
skim milk
torture
undress
worthless
zany
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