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- pronunciation:
- par
v
nu
[or]
par
v
nyu
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
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noun |
| definition: |
a person who has suddenly acquired wealth or status, without acquiring the tastes, manners, customs, or the like of his or her new station.
At the posh country club, parvenus were immediately identifiable by their flashy gold jewelry and rude treatment of staff, to whom they felt keenly superior. |
adjective + (n.)parvenu
bourgeois, consummate, est, fucking, glitzy, infantile, local, suggestive, wicked
verb + (n.)parvenu
burble, displace, predate
noun + (n.)parvenu
aristocracy, artisan, attitude, careerist, club, gentry, hack, hominid, inhabitant, insecurity, mayflower, multitude, obsession, pariah, pretension, side, spaniard, superficiality, temptation, underworld
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The word parvenu
contains the following part:
per-
Latin
prefix
that means through, throughout; very
  Example words:
impermeable, impermissible, imperturbable, impervious, parvenu, perambulate, perceive, perception, percolate, perennial, perfect, perfidy, perfoliate, perforate, perform, perfunctory, perjury, permanent, permeate, permissible, permission, permit, permute, pernicious, perorate, perpetual, perplex, persecute, persevere, persist, persistent, perspective, perspicacious, perspicuous, perspire, persuade, persuasion, persuasive, pertinacious, perturb, peruse, pervade, perverse, pervert, pervious, semipermeable
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