• drip lubrication

• slush-fund

• anointing, unction

• anointing

• bump, jar, jerk, jolt

• abatement, decline, diminution, droop, fall, fall-off, let-up, letdown, loss, setback, shrinkage, subsidence, wane, waning, waste

• leap

• dislocation

• downcast fault

• abashment, amazement

• fall in prices

• pointing

• depreciation, deterioration

• recess, relief

• pitching

• depletion

• freezing-point depression

• deceleration

• jet

• depletion

• check, jolt