Ambrose Bierce would answer

The Cynic's Word Puzzle

with the following from The Devil's Dictionary:

Review Cynic's Word Puzzle
 

Answers to the Cynic's Word Puzzle:


1. That period of time in which our affairs        h. Future
   prosper, our friends are true and our
   happiness is assured.       
                            
2. The one unpardonable sin against one's          n. Success
   fellows.

3. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the       j. Zeal
   young and inexperienced.
                                                             
4. A person of low taste, more interested          l. Egotist
   in himself than in me.

5. The House of Indifference                       k. Tomb

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

7. Wealth                                          r. Impunity

8. A tyrant's authority for crime and a            f. Destiny
   fool's excuse for failure.

9. Conspicuously miserable.                        p. Famous

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

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

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

13. The kind of ignorance distinguishing           c. Learning
    the studious.

14. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and       i. Reasonable
    evasion.

15. An erroneous appraisement.                     g. Self-esteem

16. Insensitive to the value of our advice.        b. Rash

17. A period of three hundred and sixty-five       a. Year
    disappointments.

18. A statement of belief manifestly               o. Absurdity
    inconsistent with one's own opinion.

19. A prestidigitator who, putting metal into      d. Dentist
    your mouth, pulls coins our of your pocket.