📖 if a situation is looking up, it is improving
📌 SYN improve, get better
🏷 Now the summer’s here things are looking up!
🏷 Things are looking up - I've got a new job and a new boyfriend.

📖 slow and unwilling
📌OPP willing
🏷 She gave a reluctant smile.
🏷 Maddox was reluctant to talk about it.
👪 Word family
👨🏻 (noun) reluctance
👩🏻 (adjective) reluctant
👦🏻 (adverb) reluctantly

📖 something that unites two or more people or groups, such as love, or a shared interest or idea
📌 bond between/ with/ of
🏷 Over the years the two men had developed deep bonds of friendship.
🏷 It's almost inevitable that the client will form a very close bond with the therapist.