This year, 2016, marks 400 years after his death in 1616.
Some of Shakespeare's Idioms...
Shakespeare's Contribution to English Vocabulary (not a complete list...)
- academe
- accused
- addiction
- advertising
- amazement
- arouse
- assassination
- backing
- bandit
- bedroom
- beached
- besmirch
- birthplace
- blanket
- bloodstained
- barefaced
- blushing
- bet
- bump
- buzzer
- caked
- cater
- champion
- circumstantial
- cold-blooded
- compromise
- courtship
- countless
- critic
- dauntless
- dawn
- deafening
- discontent
- dishearten
- drugged
- dwindle
- epileptic
- equivocal
- elbow
- excitement
- exposure
- eyeball
- fashionable
- fixture
- flawed
- frugal
- generous
- gloomy
- gnarled
- grovel
- gossip
- green-eyed
- gust
- hint
- hobnob
- hurried
- impede
- impartial
- invulnerable
- jaded
- label
- lackluster
- laughable
- lonely
- lower
- luggage
- lustrous
- madcap
- majestic
- marketable
- metamorphize
- mimic
- monumental
- moonbeam
- mountaineer
- negotiate
- noiseless
- obscene
- obsequiously
- ode
- olympian
- outbreak
- panders
- pedant
- premeditated
- puking
- radiance
- rant
- remorseless
- savagery
- scuffle
- secure
- skim milk
- submerge
- summit
- swagger
- torture
- tranquil
- undress
- unreal
- varied
- vaulting
- worthless
- zany
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