smuggling; contraband trade
participation; taking part in; participating in; being concerned in
tail (animal); tail end; tip
request; favour (to ask); wish; please
failed attempt (at a crime, suicide, etc.)
going in and out; entering and exiting; visiting regularly; frequenting; income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings; increase and decrease
three flat objects (sheets of paper, pieces of cloth, etc.); cutting a fish into two boneless fillets and a piece with the skeleton
probity check; background investigation
relation; connection; relevance
Harbour Ward (e.g. in Tokyo)
cannabis (Cannabis sativa); hemp (plant); hemp (fiber); linen; flax
adjacency; contiguity; being adjoined
detached house; stand-alone house; single-family home
crying or singing (of bird, etc.) at night
disagreeable; unpleasant; adverse; unsympathetic
to poison (e.g. food, drink); to administer poison
pet dog; beloved dog; love of dogs; fondness for dogs
way to die; means of dying; quality of one's death
to go through; to suffer; to experience (something unpleasant)
to be complete; to be all present; to be equal; to be uniform; to gather; to assemble
filing a (criminal) complaint; reporting a crime
to happen to hear; to overhear
in (e.g. secret); with (e.g. success)
marked; pronounced; showing a strong tendency (towards)
gentle; mild; meek; tender
one way or another; in many ways; in various ways
suspicious-looking; shady; questionable; dubious; fishy
I, myself; one-self; by one-self; even I; even one
plot; intrigue; scheme; conspiracy; agreement between two or more people to commit an unlawful act
harsh tasting; strongly alkaline tasting; excessively strong-willed; fiercely individualistic; strongly idiosyncratic