hit a slump



decline, die, ebb, fade, fail, fall, fall away, fall off, go down, go off, lapse, run down, sink, slide, slip,









   geopolitical - civic, diplomatic, governmental, politic, political, statesmanlike ,

   enrolment - acceptance, admission, admittance, baptism, booking, call, call-up, cataloguing, chronicling, compulsory military service, conscription, draft, draft call, drafting, enlistment,

   get sidetracked - depart, deviate, digress, go astray, ramble, stray, turn aside, wander ,

   exterior - alien, apparent, apparent character, appearances, border, circumference, cityscape, cloudscape, coating, cortex, cortical, covering, crust, diorama, display,

   ringleader - agitator, agitprop, bell cow, bell mare, bellwether, born leader, boss, catalyst, charismatic leader, choirmaster, conductor, demagogue, exciter, file leader, firebrand,

   clique - age group, associate with, assort with, band, battalion, bevy, body, brigade, bunch, cabal, cadre, camp, cast, cell, charmed circle,

   squashy - dirty, doughy, flabby, fleshy, macerated, masticated, miry, mucky, muddy, mushy, oozy, pasty, pithy, plashy, pulped,

   allusive - figurative, figured, flowery, implicative, indicative, inferential, insinuating, insinuative, ironic, mannered, metaphorical, ornamented, referential, suggestive ,

   niche - alcove, asylum, bay, bolt-hole, cache, carrel, concealment, corner, cove, cover, covert, cranny, cubbyhole, cubicle, dark corner,

   ill-humoured - argumentative, bad-tempered, combative, contentious, controversial, dialectic, disputatious, ill-affected, ill-disposed, ill-natured, ill-tempered, litigious, polemic, pro and con, quarrelsome ,