Choose the option that best conveys the meaning of the underlined portion in the following sentence;
Being an optimist, our professor always sees the bright side of most things
- charming
- illumined
- brilliant
- pleasing
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cheerful
The correct answer is: E
Explanation
If you ''see the bright side'', you try to be cheerful about a bad situation by thinking of some advantages that could result from it, or thinking that it is not as bad as it could have been.