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    Tuesday, May 01, 2007

    shakespeareism

    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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