Words, Words, Words!
Cynicism
Cynicism's Antidote
Contractions
Express Yourself
100

When you are suspicious and distrustful of others, you are this.

What is CYNICAL?

100

Carrey suggests that people in their twenties are full of this.

What is OPTIMISM?

100

These are the two pivotal questions.

What are WHY and WHY NOT?

100

Expand this contraction: If he'd've known you were coming . . . 

What is: If he would have known you were coming . . .

100

It can mean to tilt your eyes towards heaven or check something out in a dictionary.

What is LOOK UP?

200

The act of falling towards the inside with force.

What is an IMPLOSION?

200

Carey suggests that the death of trust, hope and belief is like this, because it infects everything.

What is a VIRUS?

200

This flourishes when curiosity is cultivated.

What is HOPE?

200

The contraction is: WANNA

What is "WANT TO."

200

You might do this to a candle or a mobster might do it to you?

What is SNUFF OUT?

300

A dog might do this with a bone, or your stomach might do this if you're worried about something.

What is GNAW?

300

You do this from the present and the future when you become cynical.

What is withdraw, avoid or deny?

300

Carey suggests cynics are never this.

What is CURIOUS?

300

The contraction is SHOULDA.

What is: SHOULD HAVE?

300

Be careful to live a balanced life or you might do this.

What is BURNOUT?

400
This might happen if you don't water your flowers, or if your boss shouts at you in public.

What is WITHER?

400

Carey says nobody begins their life saying they want to be this.

What is a CYNIC?

400

These are 2 of the 5 hacks Carey gives as an antidote for cynicism.

What are: thinking time, asking open-ended questions, listening more, dreaming more and asking why or why not?

400

Expand this contraction: He'd been to Paris, so he stayed home.

What is HE HAD?

400

Apparently, it killed the cat.

What is CURIOSITY?

500

Don't do this with your money, time, talent or resources: it's a waste!

What is SQUANDER?

500

Carey didn't become cynical when he was a lawyer, his cynicism began when he became this.

What is a PASTOR?

500

Curiosity might not come naturally, but Carey says you can develop it as a healthy _____________.

What is HABIT?

500

Expand this: They won't be at the airport to meet you.

What is: They WILL NOT be at the airport to meet you?

500

To have this kind of curiosity is dark and unhealthy.

What is MORBID CURIOSITY?

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