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15 supercool words invented by Shakespeare

TNN | Last updated on - Mar 30, 2021, 11:32 IST
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The genius Bard

Probably no one in history has contributed as much as William Shakespeare to the English vocabulary. His scripts contain more than 1700 common words used today that were never used by anybody else before. We present here 15 of the coolest words invented by Shakespeare.
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Macbeth, Act III, scene i

To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!
Rather than so, come fate into the list.
And champion me to the utterance! Who's there!
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Henry V, Act I, scene i

Must be the mistress to this theoric;
Which is a wonder how his Grace should glean it,
Since his addiction was to courses vain
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, scene i

What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here,
So near the cradle of the fairy queen?
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King Henry VI, Part II, Act II, scene i

Alas, master, I am not able to stand alone:
You go about to torture me in vain.
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Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act I, scene i

Then for the place where; where, I mean, I did encounter
that obscene and preposterous event
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As You Like It, Act II, scene vii

And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
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Julius Caesar, Act I, scene ii

Ye gods, it doth amaze me
A man of such a feeble temper should
So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.
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Twelfth Night, Act III, scene iv

"his incensement at this moment is so implacable,
that satisfaction can be none but by pangs of death
and sepulchre. Hob, nob, is his word; give't or take't"
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The Comedy of Errors, Act V, scene i

The duke, my husband and my children both,
And you the calendars of their nativity,
Go to a gossips' feast and go with me;
After so long grief, such festivity!
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The Merchant of Venice, Act III, scene ii

How all the other passions fleet to air,
As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair,
And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy!
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Troilus and Cressida, Act III, scene iii

For time is like a fashionable host
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand...
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Macbeth, Act II, scene ii

Do mock their charge with snores. I have drugged their possets,
That death and nature do contend about them,
Whether they live or die.
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King John, Act III, scene i

What a fool art thou,
A ramping fool, to brag and stamp and swear
Upon my party! Thou cold-blooded slave
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Henry V, Act I, scene i

Startles mine eyes, and makes me more amazed
Than had I seen the vaulty top of heaven
Figured quite o'er with burning meteors.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act II, scene ii

"Then by your side no bed room me deny.
For, lying so, Hermia, I do not lie."

The word has permeated into the English vocabulary as one single word "bedroom".

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