suspicious-looking; shady; questionable; dubious; fishy
bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty
wearing (e.g. uniform, seat belt); having on
to chase; to run after; to pursue
gradually (progress into a state); in sequence; in order; in turn
getting carried away; going too far; overdoing
illness; disease; bad habit; weakness; fault
ringleader; main culprit; main cause; source
purification; cleanup (e.g. of politics); purge
activity (of a person, organization, animal, volcano, etc.); action; movie (esp. during the silent movie period)
coal mine; (coal) pit; colliery
explosive; blasting powder
being well versed (in); being well acquainted (with); being familiar (with); (a boy's) first ejaculation; spermarche; semenarche
lately; recently; nowadays
bomb; alcohol with liquor added (esp. wine-based shōchū highball, also beer with whiskey)
to start; to begin; to challenge; to pick (a fight); to set (traps); to plant (explosives)
destruction; disruption; (application) crash
to miss; to overlook; to let pass (a matter); to overlook (e.g. a wrongdoing); to pass up (e.g. an opportunity); to let (a good ball) go by
state police; provincial police
assistant ...; probationary ...
offender; criminal; culprit
specific; particular; designated; specifying; designating; identifying
arrest; apprehension; capture
judgment (of a crime); conviction; condemnation; beheading; decapitation
departed spirit; soul of the dead; ghost; apparition
dry riverbed; river beach
hellfire; flames of hell; raging fire; large fire; fire that consumes an evildoer
ceremony; rite; ritual; service
body; group; party; gang; troupe; troop
encounter; being confronted with (e.g. difficulty); meeting with (e.g. accident)
to wriggle; to squirm; to crawl like a worm
weird; ominous; eerie; uncanny; ghastly
Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods); medieval times; mediaeval times