menial vs parvenu

menial

noun
  • A person who has a subservient nature. 

  • A servant, especially a domestic servant. 

adj
  • Of or relating to unskilled work. 

  • Servile; low; mean. 

  • Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant. 

parvenu

noun
  • A person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class, especially through acquisition of wealth, privileges, or political authority but has not gained social acceptance by those within that new class. 

adj
  • Being a parvenu; also, like, having the characteristics of, or associated with a parvenu. 

How often have the words menial and parvenu occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )