special - unusual, chosen, out of the ordinary⏎
salary - wages, pay, earnings⏎
upbeat - positive, enthusiastic, optimistic⏎
white elephant - bane, useless (big, expensive) thing⏎
tentative - experimental, cautious, provisional, not definite,⏎
sink - decrease, deteriorate, suppress⏎
strife - contention, a quarrel, angry disagreement⏎
scrap - cancel, annul, piece, stop using⏎
verbal - spoken, unwritten⏎
slump - decline, decrease, deteriorate, sudden fall⏎