1. PROSPERITY   loner   speaker   success   scarcity   Hint Half-n-half Clue   2. RECLUSE   animal preying on others   loner   agreement   outcast   Half-n-half Clue   3. PREDILECTION   bitterness   one opposed to war   preference   agreement   Half-n-half Clue   4. PROXIMITY   nearness   scarcity   response showing the contrary   bitterness   Half-n-half Clue   5. RANCOR   tendency to view life negatively   scarcity   bitterness   loner   Half-n-half Clue   6. QUANDARY   stinginess   speaker   religious devotion   dilemma   Half-n-half Clue   7. PESSIMISM   response showing the contrary   tendency to view life negatively   one opposed to war   outcast   Half-n-half Clue