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The Cynic's Word Puzzle

 

Multiple Choice Quiz:


1. That period of time in which our affairs        a. Year
   prosper, our friends are true and our
   happiness is assured.       
                            
2. The one unpardonable sin against one's          b. Rash
   fellows.

3. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the       c. Learning
   young and inexperienced.
                                                             
4. A person of low taste, more interested in       d. Dentist
   himswelf than in me.

5. The House of Indifference                       e. Friendship

6. A place where horses, ponies and elephants      f. Destiny
   are permitted to see men, women and children
   acting the fool.            

7. Wealth                                          g. Self-esteem

8. A tyrant's authority for crime and a            h. Future
   fool's excuse for failure.

9. Conspicuously miserable                         i. Reasonable

10. A ship big enough to carry two in fair         j. Zeal
    weather, but only one in foul.

11. The only thing that the rich are willing       k. Tomb
    for the poor to call theirs, and keep.

12. A Blackguard whose faulty vision sees          l. Egotist
    things as they are, not as they ought
    to be.

13. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the       m. Distance
    studious.

14. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and       n. Success
    evasion

15. An erroneous appraisement.                     o. Absurdity

16. Insensitive to the value of our advice.        p. Famous

17. A period of three hundred and sixty-five       q. Circus
    disappointments.

18. A statement of belief manifestly               r. Impunity
    inconsistent with one's own opinion.

19. A prestidigitator who, putting metal into      s. Cynic
    your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket.


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