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Things optimism often describes ("optimism ________")
How optimism often is described ("________ optimism")
- blind
- shallow
- rosy
- such
- evolutionary
- facile
- scientific
- unfounded
- greater
- heady
- incurable
- complacent
- unwarranted
- infectious
- therapeutic
- superficial
- naive
- official
- unjustified
- irrepressible
- much
- century
- sentimental
- guarded
- revolutionary
- characteristic
- less
- liberal
- philosophical
- exuberant
- natural
- cheerful
- healthy
- unfailing
- persistent
- moderate
- victorian
- general
- easy
- relative
- utopian
- initial
- historical
- american
- usual
- excessive
- buoyant
- cheery
- exaggerated
- youthful
- sunny
- extreme
- cautious
- unrealistic
- considerable
- christian
- eternal
- qualified
- unbridled
- dispositional
- learned
- technological
- invincible
- robust
- realistic
- widespread
- unbounded
- fundamental
- confident
- over
- romantic
- boundless
- early
- cosmic
- false
- unquenchable
- rational
- foolish
- earlier
- undue
