Word List 12 (January 22)

Word List 12

*Badinage (n)                   Hegira (n)

*Bilious (adj.)                   Kismet (n)

Blandishment (n)             *Malapropism (n)    

Debauchery (n)                 Milieu (n)

Fastidious (adj.)                Necromancy (n)

Garner (v)                         Paradigm (n)

Gumption (n)                   *Regress (v)

Halcyon (adj.)

Words not in the dictionary:
Badinage - playful, teasing talk
Bilious - bad tempered; cross
Hegira - flight; escape
Paradigm - a model; an example