1 ash

2 dust

3 lime

4 gray

5 discouraged

6 dejected

1 gray

2 ash gray

3 grizzly

4 pessimistic

5 gloomy

6 dispirited

7 ambiguous

1 Nestlé

1 sparrow

2 (dialect) mahjong

1 big bad wolf

1 cheering excitedly (idiom)

2 jubilant

1 lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence

2 sth malevolent returns to haunt one

1 gloomy and dull (idiom)

2 boring and gray

3 unpleasantly murky

1 head and face filthy with grime (idiom)

2 covered in dirt

3 dejected and depressed

1 lit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom)

2 fig. to be annihilated

3 to vanish in a puff of smoke