1. a person without any means of support, especially a destitute person who depends on aid from public welfare funds or charity.
2. a very poor person.
The vocabulary word was written in the story “A Rose for Emily” by Williams Faulkner.
When her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad. At last they could pity Miss Emily. Being left alone, and a pauper, she had become humanized.
Miss Emily was a pauper after her father death, all she has left was the house, nothing else to her name. She didn’t have a job or anything, only minor things another person done for her such as picking up groceries.
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