arriviste
C2CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
An assertively ambitious person determined to succeed socially or financially, often unscrupulously.
Every gallery opening now teems with arrivistes eager to be photographed beside people they have only just met.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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