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Shakespeare Activity Worksheet 1 PER___NAME________________________ JOHANSEN Did you know many of the words we use today were invented by William Shakespeare? Circle the words below you think Shakespeare invented: academe accused addiction advertising amazement 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 gossip green-eyed gust hint hobnob hurried impede impartial invulnerable jaded label lackluster laughable lonely lower luggage lustrous madcap majesticmarketable 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 gnarled grovel Shakespeare also loved puns. A pun is a word used with a double meaning. Example: If a mother was speaking about their beloved child and said, “He is my sun,” this would be a pun because she means he is both her “son” and a source of light, meaning/representing joy, like the sun. Do you have any favorite puns? Write something “punny” in the space below! See how many puns you can come up with all on your own:
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Shakespeare Activity Worksheet 1 PER___NAME________________________ JOHANSEN
Did you know many of the words we use today were invented by William Shakespeare? Circle the words below you think Shakespeare invented:
academe accused addiction advertising amazement 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
gossip green-eyed gust hint hobnob hurriedimpede impartial
invulnerable jaded label lackluster laughable lonely lower luggage
lustrous madcap majesticmarketable 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 gnarled grovel
Shakespeare also loved puns. A pun is a word used with a double meaning. Example: If a mother was speaking about their beloved child and said, “He is my sun,” this would be a pun because she means he is both her “son” and a source of light, meaning/representing joy, like the sun.
Do you have any favorite puns? Write something “punny” in the space below! See how many puns you can come up with all on your own:
Combine a word from each column to insult your friends and foes like Shakespeare!Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
artless base-court apple-johnvenomed bat-fowling baggagebeslubbering beef-witted barnaclebootless beetle-headed bladderchurlish boil-brained boar-pigvillainous clapper-clawed bugbearclouted clay-brained wagtailcraven common-kissing canker-blossomcurrish crook-pated clack-dishdankish dismal-dreaming clotpoledissembling dizzy-eyed coxcombdroning dog-hearted varloterrant dread-bolted death-tokenfawning earth-vexing dewberryfobbing elf-skinned flap-dragonfroward fat-kidneyed flax-wenchfrothy fen-sucked flirt-gillwarped flap-mouthed foot-lickergoatish fly-bitten fustilariangorbellied folly-fallen gigletimpertinent fool-born gudgeoninfectious full-gorged haggardjarring guts-griping harpyloggerheaded half-faced hedge-piglumpish hasty-witted horn-beastmammering hedge-born hugger-muggermangled swag-bellied joitheadmewling idle-headed lewdsterpaunchy ill-breeding loutwayward ill-nurtured maggot-piepuking knotty-pated malt-wormpuny milk-livered mammetqualling motley-minded measlerank onion-eyed minnowreeky plume-plucked miscreant
Combine a word from each column to insult your friends and foes like Shakespeare!Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 roguish tickle-brained moldwarpruttish pox-marked mumble-newssaucy reeling-ripe nut-hookspleeny rough-hewn pigeon-eggspongy rude-growing pignutsurly weather-bitten puttocktottering shard-borne pumpionunmuzzled sheep-biting ratsbane
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