offender; criminal; culprit
house; home; one's house; one's home; one's husband
crime; criminal act; offence; offense
potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability
passing; (person) who happens to pass by; (place) that one happens to pass by; casual (e.g. romance); momentary
thank you; thanks; much (thanks); very (sorry); quite; really; somehow
unnatural; artificial; affected; strained
robber; mugger; robbery; burglary
preparation; arrangements; provision; getting ready; laying out (e.g. a meal)
to compete; to contest; to quarrel; to argue; to deny (e.g. evidence)
trace; tracks; site; remains; scar
slight; little; insignificant
resistance; opposition; reluctance; repulsion; resistance; drag
bounce; spring; momentum; impetus; moment; instant
to be stormy; to be rough; to be rough (of skin); to be chapped; to be ruined; to fall into ruin
when it comes to ...; where ... is concerned; if it's the case that ...; if it turns out that ...; if it's true that ...
planned; scheduled; systematic
line; stripe; line (e.g. telephone line); wire; ray (e.g. X-ray); beam; line (e.g. of a railroad)
good prospects; full of hope; promising
one's relationships; people one knows; circle of friends
to wash; to cleanse; to inquire into; to investigate; to purify (one's heart); to lave (e.g. shore)
to rise to the surface; to come to the front; to emerge (e.g. from obscurity); to stand out (e.g. against a dark background)
particularly; especially; in particular; expressly
if so; in that case; in that situation
one's whole life; one's lifetime
twenty-first day of the month; twenty-one days
interval; period of time; among; between; good opportunity; chance
early (prompt) settlement; swift resolution; speedy solution
large number; innumerable; great many; immense; vast; abundant
blood; blood; ancestry; (the) blood; feelings
to be smeared; to be covered
considerably; fairly; quite
to be spattered by blood from one's victim; to suffer a reaction; to receive a backlash
police investigation carried out in the immediate vicinity of a crime site
eyewitness report; eyewitness information
(in spite of) being old enough to know better
sweet-tasting; sweet; fragrant (smelling); sweet (music); lightly salted; light in salt; naive
confrontation; to face; to confront; to encounter
moving about in confusion; going every which way; going this way and that
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
to the limit; to the fullest extent; absolutely the limit; one cup after another; cup by cup
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
eh?; what?; yes; that's correct; (arch.) strengthens a question, assertion, etc.; (arch.) hey
next (to); adjoining; adjacent; house next door; neighbouring house; next-door neighbour