to fade; to lose colour (color); to discolour (discolor)
recovery; undoing; recall
question; question (mark)
how should I put it?; what shall I say?; well, you know; like
to lend a hand; to give a hand; to help; to extend a helping hand
to go through; to pierce; to penetrate; to stick to (opinion, principles, etc.); to carry out; to persist with
fine weather during the rainy season
cloudless (sky); without a cloud (in the sky)
crisply; with a crunch; refreshingly; sharply; candidly; frankly
starting (machine, engine, car, etc.); activation
front-facing; forward-looking; positive; constructive
changing seasons; season's transition; transition from one season to the next; turn of the seasons; turning of the seasons
adaptation; accommodation; conformity
to wither; to wilt; to droop; to be dejected; to be disheartened; to be depressed
negative; passive; half-hearted; unmotivated
unheard-of; unprecedented; unparalleled in history (unparallelled); record-breaking
blues experienced by college freshmen or workplace recruits shortly after beginning school or work; the May blues
decline; ebb; failure; decay; decrease; loss
to earn the nickname (of); to be dubbed
to have (someone) by the short hairs; to have something on (someone)
violence; oppression; high-handedness; tyranny; despotism
wearing (e.g. uniform, seat belt); having on
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
female clothing; wearing female clothing; cross dressing (for a man)
men's language; male language
exhaustion; fatigue; impoverishment; (financial) exhaustion; ruin
outbreak (e.g. of war); outburst; sudden occurrence
oppression; suppression; pressure
close (e.g. in terms of relationship); intimate
to repeat; to be frequent
for a while; for some time; for a period
overeagerness; rashness; forward step-out
matter of time; question of time
to become fine (of fabric); to be checkmated; to be hard pressed; to be at a loss
snail's pace; slow progress
fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth