The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms INTRO ...

is a big rock star, he simply wallows in all the attention he is
getting. 3 stumble, stagger, lurch, flounder, teeter, totter,
falter, pitch: Without its engines, the ship was lifted skyward
by a wave one moment only to wallow in a trough the next.
wan adj. 1 white, sickly, pale, pallid, livid, pasty, ashen,
bloodless, waxen, whey-faced, sallow, colourless, deathly,
ghostly, ghastly, cadaverous: I almost wept at seeing the
child's wan face against the pillow. 2 weary, weak, hollow,
feeble, frail, ineffectual, sorry, pitiful: She offered no more
than a wan smile in response to questions about her family.
wand n. baton, stick, staff, stick: The magician pointed with his
wand and a bottle of gin appeared.
wander v. 1 walk, go, roam, rove, range, stray, ramble, stroll,
saunter, meander, drift, cruise, prowl, Colloq mosey: We
wandered about the village square, chatting and window-shopping.
2 wind, meander, zigzag, turn this way and that: A trout stream
wanders past our house. 3 digress, go off, become
absent-minded, go wool-gathering, lose concentration or focus:
My mind wandered as the speaker droned on. 4 deviate, digress,
turn, divagate, stray, drift, depart, go off at a tangent, lose
(one's) train of thought, lapse: The speaker tended to wander
occasionally.
wane v. 1 decrease, diminish, grow less, lessen, decline, die out,
abate, ebb, subside, fade (away), dim, taper off, peter out,
wind down, weaken: The waning moon cast its pale light on the
dying knight. As his strength waned he could no longer lift his
sword. 2 draw to a close, end, terminate: The day waned into a
gloomy evening.
--n. 3 decrease, diminution, lessening, decline, abatement,
ebb, subsidence, fading, tapering off, petering out, winding
down, weakening, deterioration, degeneration: The 1970s saw the
wane in popularity of large, gas-guzzling cars. 4 on the wane.
on the decrease or decline or ebb, diminishing, decreasing,
declining, abating, subsiding, fading, tapering off, petering
out, winding down, weakening, deteriorating, degenerating: The
economy is recovering, and inflation is on the wane. Since that
latest illness, my energy has been on the wane.