still, as always, as usual, as ... as ever, same old story

an effort, an endeavor

to endeavor, to make an effort

solution, settlement / (music) Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made; resolution

(transitive) solve, resolve, settle (a problem, a trouble, a criminal case) / (intransitive) be solved, be settled / (intransitive) can be solved; be soluble

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

question, problem on homework etc. / a question; a matter (of time etc.) / a problem (something that needs to be dealt with); a trouble / an issue; a matter

unsolved, unresolved