Vocabulary Exercise

Kasim, a mason who lives across the street and came all the way from India to the States told us an imponderable story on the reason why he moved here. He told us that in his country origin he was labelled as Pariah or someone that has been soundly rejected by the community. He has neither any control nor opportunity to elevate his social status. The majority of the people there become so picayune whenever they dealt with him on a job, no matter how much he endeavors the job and never have done any egregious thing. This has led Kasim to retract from his life there and decided to travel and settle in the US. Initially he felt a deep contrite but overtime he felt relieved which showed from his beatific smile when he told us the story. I would imagine if he had stayed in his original country and tried to solely change the system there, I would perceive that as a very hopeless effort or even if it does happen it would be some sort of a pyrrhic occasion.