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Shakespeare Words

Shakespearean, not stirred.

If Shakespeare wrote it, we've Shmooped it.

Lackluster

Popularized in As You Like It

And then he drew a dial from his poke
And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,


Back in Shakespeare's day, people loved throwing lack- in front of any word they could get their hands on, like lackland and lack-Latin.

Lackluster lasted, though, and we still use it today.


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