1. charlatan or pretender.   mountebank   narcissist   necromancer   paragon   Hint Half-n-half Clue   2. undertaker.   paramour   militant   progenitor   mortician   Half-n-half Clue   3. person who thinks and views things negatively.   braggart   numismatist   pessimist   protégé   Half-n-half Clue   4. person having delusions of power and grandeur.   philanthropist   peon   megalomaniac   posterity   Half-n-half Clue   5. doctor who deals with brain and nervous system.   braggart   philistine   mendicant   neurologist   Half-n-half Clue   6. woman who rules family or group.   neophyte   mountebank   matriarch   orthopaedist   Half-n-half Clue   7. influential or powerful person.   optician   palaeontologist   mogul   philanthropist   Half-n-half Clue