100 Day Challenge: Words #5

Episode five (for days 16 to 20) of my 100 day challenge to find words I don’t know. I’m scraping words from https://randomword.com/ and each day picking one that I find interesting and which is also in the OED.

Day Date Word Meaning
21 Thursday 21 November pigsconce A foolish or pigheaded person; blockhead
22 Friday 22 November cabasset A light iron helmet
23 Saturday 23 November tephra Dust and rock fragments that have been ejected into the air by a volcanic eruption
24 Sunday 24 November novena A devotion consisting of special prayers or services on nine successive days
25 Monday 25 November chiru ** Tibetan antelope with a thick, reddish-brown woolly coat, and (in the male) very long straight horns

** My favourite of the words presented.

Next episode in a few days!