Striver
Examples
“I am angered not only by such bloodsucking selective memory, but also at another example of how gay "respectability"-strivers try⟳ to distance themselves from the nonconformists and fringe members of our movement.”
“The company’s namesake, Condé Montrose Nast, was a Gilded Age striver from St. Louis who purchased a sleepy society gazette called Vogue in 1909 and made it an arbiter of women’s fashion […].”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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