gun; cannon; artillery; ordnance
firing (esp. a rocket or missile); launching; shooting; ejaculation
bridge (e.g. on a warship)
black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty
food (esp. chicken and vegetables) boiled in plain water (or sometimes dashi, etc.) and served with dipping sauce (esp. ponzu)
carving; engraving; sculpture
model; dummy; model (profession); fashion model; model (of a vehicle, machine, etc.); version; model (e.g. mathematical)
outward appearance; ostensible; public; official
object of romantic interest
to be too numerous; to be too much
to be affected; to be influenced; to be concerned with; to have to do with; to stick to (opinions)
to ascertain; to check; to make sure
romanticist; romantic; dreamer
calling card murder (e.g. in murder mystery fiction)
if you think about it; come to think of it
murder; homicide; manslaughter
famous scene (e.g. in a movie or play)
to select; to choose; to diagnose (an illness); to judge; to liken to something else; to regard as something else (e.g. to use another person as a mirror); to see someone off
mourning (dead persons); memorial
reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery or detective genre
overbearing; coercive; pushy; forcible; high-handed
choice; selection; diagnosis; medical opinion; judgement; opinion
series; chain; two reams (i.e. 1000 sheets of paper); verse; stanza
police officer; policeman; constable
to slip through; to slip past; to evade
crime; criminal act; offence; offense
Herculean task; next-to-impossible undertaking
same; similar; (just) like; equal
quite; entirely; completely; as if; as though; just like
to all appearances; no matter how you look at it
among these; between these; of these; in here; in this
person; character; one's character; one's personality; able person; talented person
to show up; to appear; to turn up
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
in appearance; to look at; judging from appearances
in the background; not standing out
phantom; vision; illusion; extremely rare item
nth son; lang; official title in ancient China; (arch.) man; (arch.) young man; (arch.) my husband
one by one; each; every; at intervals of
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less