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Words Invented by Shakespeare  
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Who knew that the most famous play write in history invented many common words? Apparently he just turned nouns into verbs, adjectives into verbs, and so forth. Where would we be without these common forms of expression? Here are 30 of the 1700 he invented.

1.	Accused
2.	Addiction
3.	Advertising
4.	Amazement
5.	Arouse
6.	Assassination
7.	Bandit
8.	Bedroom
9.	Beached
10.	Blanket
11.	Bump
12.	Cater
13.	Champion
14.	Countless
15.	Epileptic
16.	Fixture
17.	Flawed
18.	Generous
19.	Hint
20.	Lonely
21.	Mimic
22.	Negotiate
23.	Obscene
24.	Premeditated
25.	Rant
26.	Summit
27.	Torture
28.	Varied
29.	Worthless
30.	Zany

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