Code downloads a text file from a website, saves it to local disk, and then loads it into a list for further processing
Your code is nice and concise however there are some changes you can make:


You can just return f.readlines() in make_wordlist.
If you've done this to show that the result is a list then it'd be better to use the typing module.

from typing import List


def make_wordlist(filename: str) -&gt; List[str]:
    ...

get_mylist can be replaced with wordlist[:numlines]. This is because if len(wordlist) is smaller or equal to numlines, then it will return the entire thing anyway.
Performance wise it's best to use print('\n'.join(list)) rather than for item in list: print(item).
I would prefer to be able to change chunk_size in save_webpagecontent and so you can make it a default argument.
IIRC multi-line docstrings shouldn't start on the same line as the """, nor should they end on the same line either.


import requests
from typing import List

Response = requests.Response


def get_webpage(uri) -&gt; Response:
    return requests.get(uri)


def save_webpagecontent(r: Response, filename: str,
                        chunk_size: int=8388608) -&gt; None:
    """
    This function saves the page retrieved by get_webpage. r is the 
    response from the call to requests.get and
    filename is where we want to save the file to in the filesystem.
    """
    with open(filename, 'wb') as fd:
        for chunk in r.iter_content(chunk_size):
            fd.write(chunk)


def read_wordlist(filename: str) -&gt; List[str]:
    with open(filename) as fd:
        return fd.readlines()


def print_mylist(word_list: List[str]) -&gt; None:
    print('\n'.join(word.strip() for word in word_list))


"""
List of words collected and contributed to the public domain by
Grady Ward as part of the Moby lexicon project. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Project
"""
uri = 'https://ia802308.us.archive.org/7/items/mobywordlists03201gut/CROSSWD.TXT'
filename = 'wordlist.txt'

r = get_webpage(uri)
save_webpagecontent(r, filename)
print_mylist(read_wordlist(filename)[:10])