7.Me definition of a(n) (optimist misapprehension) is someone who looks at an almost empty bottle and says, "This bottle is one quarter full."
optimist
8.The worst way to deal with disappointments is to become (fluent sulky) the best way is to smile and make up your mind to try again
sulky
9.When everything went wrong for Stan and he saw absolutely no way out of his troubles he muttered to himself, "I just cant (mangle cope)
cope