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Grammatical Class Word Adverb Compound Descriptive Idea Hypenated

Front what grammatical class is the word "well"
Back adverb

thus this is a compound descriptive idea and gets hypenated

The well-known actress accepted her award.

similarly:

A long-anticipated decision was finally made.
He got a much-needed haircut yesterday.

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