Today's Word "arriviste"
An upstart
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arriviste \a-ree-VEEST\ (noun) - A person who has recently attained success, wealth, or high status but not general acceptance or respect; an upstart.
"Then Violet McKisco, whose prettiness had been piped to the surface of her, so that she ceased her struggle to make tangible to herself her shadowy position as the wife of an arriviste who had not arrived." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, 'Tender is the Night'
Arriviste comes from French, from arriver, "to arrive," from (assumed) Vulgar Latin arripare, "to reach the shore," from Latin ad-, "to, toward" + ripa, "shore."
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