arriviste a-ree-VEEST, noun:
A person who has recently attained success, wealth, or high status but not general acceptance or respect; an upstart.

Arriviste comes from French, from arriver, “to arrive,” from (assumed) Vulgar Latin arripare, “to reach the shore,” from Latin ad-, “to, toward” + ripa, “shore.”

clochard KLOH-shahr noun:

A beggar; vagrant.

From French clocher, to limp, from Latin clopus, lame.

myopic my-OP-ik adjective:

1. Nearsighted; unable to see clearly objects at a distance.
2. Shortsighted; lacking foresight; narrow-minded.

From New Latin, from Greek, myopia, from myop- nearsighted, from myein, to close + ops, eye.