Dim

I had a dim recollection/memory of having met her before. (remember slightly, not very well).

I take a dim view of this kind of behaviour. (disapprouve of sth)

He sat at a dim corener of the waiting-room. (not clear)

The company's proepects for the future are rather dim. (not positive; not likely to succeed.)

The dinner party conversation faltered for a moment. // Her friends never faltered in their belief in her. (lose strength or purpose and stop)

He railed against/at the injustices of the system. (complain angrily)

She was confronted by a man wileding a knife. (hold a weapon or toll and look as if you are going to use it)

He still wields enormous influence/power within the party. (have a lot of ..over sb)

to keep/preserve/retain your sanity; maybe Jenny can bring some sanity into this crazy situation. (Think and act in good judgement) He'd been behavig so strangely that they began to question/doubt his sanity.

She gave her teacher a simpering smile.

The camera focused on a group of woman whose faces were tormented by/with grief. It tormented me all day,-did I remember to lock the door when I left the house?

His sexist attitude infuriates me.

gaze at / comtemplate your navel (spend too much time thinking about yourself and your own problems)

She's got a nice husky voice. You sound husky, do you have a cold? (low and rough, attractive or ill)

We mustn't flinch from (making) difficult decisions. (avoid sth unpleasnt or painful)

Pepper and Salt: adj, describe hairs that is a mixture of dark and grey/white hairs

Pepper sth with sth: The city's walls were peppered with bullet (hit sth repeatedly with small objects) // The letter was peppered with exclamtion marks. (often passive, included with a lot of that particular thing)