Thursday, April 21, 2016

What do the words LACKLUSTER, MOONBEAM & PUKING have in common?

They are all words that Shakespeare "invented" or one could say put together using prefixes, suffixes, merging words, changing verbs into adjectives and nouns into verbs (which still happens today, for example, Google...).  But Shakespeare also came up with words in a completely original manner, so we can say he invented words in the end.

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...)

  1. academe
  2. accused
  3. addiction
  4. advertising
  5. amazement
  6. arouse
  7. assassination
  8. backing
  9. bandit
  10. bedroom
  11. beached
  12. besmirch
  13. birthplace
  14. blanket 
  15. bloodstained
  16. barefaced
  17. blushing
  18. bet
  19. bump
  20. buzzer
  21. caked
  22. cater
  23. champion
  24. circumstantial
  25. cold-blooded
  26. compromise
  27. courtship
  28. countless
  29. critic
  30. dauntless
  31. dawn
  32. deafening
  33. discontent
  34. dishearten
  35. drugged
  36. dwindle
  37. epileptic
  38. equivocal
  39. elbow
  40. excitement
  41. exposure
  42. eyeball
  43. fashionable
  44. fixture
  45. flawed
  46. frugal
  47. generous
  48. gloomy
  49. gnarled
  50. grovel
  51. gossip
  52. green-eyed
  53. gust
  54. hint
  55. hobnob
  56. hurried
  57. impede
  58. impartial
  59. invulnerable
  60. jaded
  61. label
  62. lackluster
  63. laughable
  64. lonely
  65. lower
  66. luggage
  67. lustrous
  68. madcap
  69. majestic
  70. marketable
  71. metamorphize
  72. mimic
  73. monumental
  74. moonbeam
  75. mountaineer
  76. negotiate
  77. noiseless
  78. obscene
  79. obsequiously
  80. ode
  81. olympian
  82. outbreak
  83. panders
  84. pedant
  85. premeditated
  86. puking
  87. radiance
  88. rant
  89. remorseless
  90. savagery
  91. scuffle
  92. secure
  93. skim milk
  94. submerge
  95. summit
  96. swagger
  97. torture
  98. tranquil
  99. undress
  100. unreal
  101. varied
  102. vaulting
  103. worthless
  104. zany

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