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Optimist

/ˈɑptəmɪst/
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(noun) A person who expects a favourable outcome.

The optimist looks into a mirror and becomes more optimistic, the pessimist more pessimistic.
Helen is by nature an optimist.
CEFR Practice Quiz
As an ____, he always believed that things would work out in the end, no matter how bad they seemed.

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